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  1. If commuting means "driving car" on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please stay away from audiobooks and other similar distractive stuff. All those people not killed in traffic accidents will be thankful.

  2. I have to agree strongly. on Batterylife Activator Reviewed · · Score: 1

    While DansDate isnt a good source for product purchases (it simply doesnt test enough stuff), there are doutzends of links that found the way into my favourites over the years.

  3. Re:Well beyond... on Needle Free Injections With Microjets · · Score: 1

    well, that depends.
    Nothing against an elephant dose of novalgin or codein, for example :)

  4. Re:Why did this take a study? on Nielsen Report Says Internet Usage Flattening · · Score: 1

    Its not exactly the same.
    Your 150 random people from the phonebook will be a relativly good average (although it gets worse, with cell phone only people, ect, a few years ago it was better).
    But those kind of messuring they do is higly biased, because IMHO most people who really USE the web wouldnt agree installing their spyware... er "proxy".

  5. Re:Why are you listening? on Ultrawideband May Stall Before It Starts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because there is an installed base of about 1.5 billion devices that may be affected by ill effects of new wireless standarts?

  6. Re:3D on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 1

    er. What you mean ist called "optic illusion" and is the brains more or less successful struggle to create SOMETHING 3d out of the unsufficient data from one eye.
    YOu can REALLY crap out if you trust this "depth perception"

  7. Re:Inefficiency on KDE 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    err...
    You mean before open office became open source? possible, but unlikely, that was years before the first koffice was included in kde.

  8. Re:Bruce Schneier. The anti solution. on MS to Trade Passwords for 2-Factor Authentication · · Score: 1

    But if your pessimist decides its the best solution to sit in the corner and cry about the ugly world that isnt perfect, and the optimist actually does something, i would take the optimist.

  9. Re:Are they insane? on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 1

    Thats all nice, but i started booting on my xp2000 with 1gb ram 10 minutes ago and its still at the KDE splashscreen...
    In that form, its more like a anti-ad "dont use that slow crap" instead of a way to make linux more popular.

    Also, why a fullblown emulator? Windows is only on x86, so there should be ways around that...

  10. Re:trading one monopoly for another? on Google and Their Server Farm · · Score: 1

    You know, Microsoft wasnt that evil either in the 80s.
    You would rather have a monopoly by a company whose PR departments says "we are not evil"... until they have their monopoly for at least 3 or 4 years and not changed their style, i wont give anything about that.

  11. Re:Its not slashdot its.. on Google and Their Server Farm · · Score: 1

    Well, its number 30 or so on the mainpage the last 5 weeks, so you arent off by much.

  12. Re:Torrent... on WinOS+QEMU+Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix! · · Score: 1

    You know, i have seen naruto torrents with 10000 seeds and 25000 peers and no problem.
    Just like with http, you need a strong enough server. If you have your tracker on a dsl line running on a via c3, not even bittorrent will be able to help you.

  13. Re:What terrible acting on Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You! · · Score: 1

    Well, thats ok. But the jawbone of the female main cast is something that would be hit even on the street as "oh god that bitch is ugly". Not main cast material (especially not _that dress_)

  14. Mod down parent on Automatic 3D Reconstruction of Scenes · · Score: 1

    With you reasoning, computers couldnt work at all because 70s SF movies had redicululous things done by computers.

    Software like this, only in more basic form, has been around for at least 10 years. There was a retail product aimed at VRML designers 5 years or so ago that made the same, but needed user input (he had to mark corresponding edges in the different frames.

    Not this software can use the fact that the input frames are not from a camera, but video frames, so it can use normal motion search algorithms like they are used in video compression to find the place of a edge/corner afain in the next frame.

    After that, it creates a plausible 3d model whose projections correspond with the screen coordinates of the points in the different frames (lots of boring matrix math). Then it uses for every triangle created a cut from the video and UV maps it as a texture (a lot of room for detail improvement, like averaging, or trying to pick "the best" view of that object face in the picture stream.

    So it seams the main improvement of this new software is an automatic keypoint search algorithm that works and gives good output. No bugus, just a good piece of software. And no, it cant show things that never were shown, but if a guy with a camera films for a minute while walking aorund in a room, not much will remain out of view.

  15. Step by step guide to getting mod insightful: on Nero Burning for Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Write so much and so boring stuff nobody reads everything.
    2. Write a few big FOSS at eyecatchers, and next to it that its important for you, your buissness, birth control, ect.
    3.?
    4.INSIGHTFUL!!!!11

  16. Re:Advantages of Nero? on Nero Burning for Linux · · Score: 1

    Nero has included quite some video codec features in its burning software, including the currently best h264 codec. (but i dont know how much is included in that version the article is about).

  17. Answer on Nero Burning for Linux · · Score: 1

    Meaning that here in germany at least there is a 80% chance that if you buy a random dvd-writer, there is some oem version of nero with it. Of course only usable with windows. Until now.

  18. Re:Interesting stuff... on AMD and Intel CPUs Supported On Same Motherboard · · Score: 1

    The K7s5a is the board that doesnt die....
    I bought it years ago because a expensive epox board meet the fate of the screwdriver scratch and i NEEDED one, but didnt have any money.

    It still runs. It doesnt support usb2.0, it shows my cpu only as "unknown amd", but it runs for years without any problems (at some times up to an uptime of >50days). It has now a GB of ram, has onboard 100mbit +an pci lan card, a raid 5 hardware controller, radeon9500pro, watercooling... and it just doesnt die.
    Its like the vw beetle: geek factor goes to zero, but the fucking thing wont die on me, so i dont have any excuse to by a new rig :)

  19. Re:Self Defeating on HP Introduces New Technology to Save Mobile Battery Life · · Score: 0

    Come on,please move down from your high horse, asshat. ....Running winxp on a beautiful eizo tft.

  20. Re:About this... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Blue ray is better, technically.
    The whole reason why the hd-dvd standart was created in the first place was the fact that the manufactures didnt like the fab requirements for the very thin transparent layer of the blue-ray disc, so the inferior hd-dvd spec was created, which allowed for using older equipment from dvd production.

  21. Re:why would it be illegial? on CherryOS Mac Emulator Resurfaces · · Score: 3, Informative

    but selling a program ripped of from a open source app violating the GPL should be.
    Or didnt your even RTFSummary?

  22. Re:GRAPE@home would be nice... on World's First Physics Processing Unit · · Score: 1

    haha. Smartass.
    inverse squareroot as in 1/sqrt(x)

  23. Re:I may be a bit out of date on cd-rs on Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just googled around and it seems the overhead is 18MB.

  24. I may be a bit out of date on cd-rs on Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but isnt there a session overhead of about 20-25MB for every burn?
    Wouldnt that make even an empty cd fail be filled after a months, nevertheless rather full distro cd?

    Whats wrong with using an USB stick for such things?

  25. GRAPE@home would be nice... on World's First Physics Processing Unit · · Score: 1

    Im not as much into games as i used to be, but i would really be interested in a addon card that could be (ab)used to do some more intersting stuff, like accelerating inverse squareroots for nbody calculations or other stuff.
    Those things can be done incredibly fast if you glue them in hardware.