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  1. Re:Good news on OpenDocument Voted In By ISO · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, so far so good. Now corrupt the first 300 bytes of the file. See which one allows you to get the data back. If you are really committed, you might be able to get some back from the Word document, by going in and copying out small sections of contiguous text. From OO, you probably can't. From a plain text file, it is easiest.

    Remember, there are tradeoffs to almost every design decision, compression included.

  2. Re:CAPTCHAs on Amazon's Mechanical Turk · · Score: 1

    That guy has quite a Thesis committee. Look up some of those names (Malik and Kanade in particular) and you will find incredible contributions to computer vision. That has got to look good on a resume.

  3. Re:what is so terrible about dual licencing? on Jonathan Zdziarski Answers · · Score: 1

    As long as non of the code that other people contribute back to your GPL version makes it into your other licensed version. If I contribute to your GPL project, then that contribution can only be released as GPL.

  4. Re:Is this really a file system? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    Well as far as I can tell, within the database the metadata is stored in the same way as .NET objects, and they can have types (including inheritance), properties and methods, just like an object. These are defined by a schema which is written by application programmers who write programs to create and modify files of certain types. I am not sure if that helps, but I don't understand much more than that.

  5. Re:diff -u WinXP Vista on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, the most important differences are at the administrator level, not the user level. And yes, SFU Engineering does kick ass.

  6. Re:What exactly is it? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=1063 56 This interview talks about the difference between tagging and the WinFS system. Seems to boil down to a more structured relationship between tags, and the ability for multiple apps to use the same tags and tag relationships.

  7. Re:Is this really a file system? on WinFS Beta 1 Released Early · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look at http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=1063 56
    for more information.

    Basically, it sounds like the files are stored at the low level as ntfs files, with a relational database wrapping around them, allowing you to treat them as .NET objects.

  8. Re:klotho? on Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene · · Score: 1

    You would think that they would choose Atropos, the one who chooses when to cut the thread, rather than Clotho, the spinner.

  9. Re:Seriously man. on Drawing Minorities Into Gaming · · Score: 1

    hehe. ditto on that. I read the GP four times looking for some punch line... or explanation of some sort... I am still boggled

  10. Re:Breakdown on Drawing Minorities Into Gaming · · Score: 1

    If Hispanics may be of any race, what is the factor that makes someone Hispanic?

  11. Re:But do they learn what we think they learn? on Teaching Computers to See with Games · · Score: 1

    That is exactly the problem that they are solving. By using a game to collect a data sample instead of a couple of grad students, they can get millions of images labeled instead of hundreds. The more images, the less likely you are to have correlated image features (tank presence and cloudiness were heavily correlated in the neural network system you are recalling). Of course they also run the risk of very poor data, such as someone spelling out the word using cleared space as ink.

  12. Re:DMCA isn't a problem, lack of 'loser pays all' on Canada Introduces DMCA-Style Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Of course, since it is loser pays all, if you get sued for the $10 CD, you have to pay all the court costs as well.
    Do you happen to know how much that would be? (And are lawyer fees included in the 'all' -- I for one don't want to have to pay for the CRIA's lawyers)

  13. Re:m ... i don't know ... on The Death of the Music CD · · Score: 1

    Well if the music were streamed to you directly as an analog signal, I don't think that would count as a file format. No file, therefore no file format... Then you could capture the stream and encode however you want. Although that is probably not what they are talking about.

  14. Re:There could be a reason for this... on 3D User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Either out of this world or able to move your body. One of the biggest problems with the 2D projection model is that it stays static as you move your head, which quickly destroys the 3D illusion. If they solved that (yes it would take either a webcam with tracking software, or special hardware) the illusion would be much better.

  15. Re:frozenset on Python 2.4 Final Released · · Score: 1

    You have to be careful with this one. If a frozenset is a set, then it must be able to do everything that a set can. This means that set can' t have any methods that modify it. Otherwise, if a frozenset object were used as a set object polymorphically, then the code might call a modifying function on the frozenset. I think the vice-versa might work better, since a set should be able to handle anything that a frozenset can. But then of could you lose the intuitive appeal of IS-A. Maybe there should be set, with mutable set and frozen set as subclasses.

  16. Re:Some comments on Printf Debugging Revisited · · Score: 1

    For those of us just setting out to get that experience, is there a style guide of some good starting points to follow? Also, can you point me towards some good code that I can try to learn from? I've found that identifying hard to read code is easy, but figuring out how to correct it is hard.

  17. Re:What about a sphere? on Walking In A VR Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While we are looking at other alternatives: If we are already using remotely controlled wheels that stay under your feet, why don't we just attach the wheels to the shoes. Basically, multi-directional roller skates with controlled wheels should be able to do the same thing, with a lot less complexity

  18. Re:Libraries... on Hackers As Factory Workers? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Companies today have realized that anyone can operate a wench
    You made my day. I'll be chuckling all through my final exams this afternoon.
  19. Re:Frequency change=nonlinearity=high levels on Directed Sound · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you are right. I should have thought of looking at the frequency spectrum, since I just finished 2 university courses on fourier analysis.

  20. Re:Frequency change=nonlinearity=high levels on Directed Sound · · Score: 1

    Look at your math the other way around: If you have your 2 signals cos(ut) and cos(vt) cos(ut) + cos(vt) = 2 ( cos ((u+v)t/2) . cos((u-v)t/2)) In this signal you get have a beat frequency that is caused by the cos((u-v)t/2) term.

  21. Re:Linus about Mac OS X? on Linus Holds Forth On the Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else get the distinct image of the grandparent message peeling itself off the page to look at the highest ranking topics around it?

  22. Re:Magic Undo on The Rights of GM Humans · · Score: 1

    That makes sense, provided that the change that is done has no side-affects. For example, a genetic change that creates hormones to promote growth, could be reversed, but the growth would already have happened. This isn't even considering other changes that could potential harm or kill the person in the time between the first change was made, and the time it was decided to undo the change. Just food for thought

  23. Blocking Google: robots.txt on Chinese Sites Band Together To Counter Google · · Score: 1

    Or how about block the country from Google. Something along the lines of a mandatory robots.txt that blocks all non-chinese search engines from spidering any site owned by a citizen of China.

  24. Animusic w/ Athlon 1.4 and Radeon 9500 PRO on DirectX 9 Finally Out · · Score: 1

    Running the animusic demo on an Athlon 1.4, with 512 DDR RAM and the Radeon 9500 PRO, I get significant slowdown. By the end of the music, the graphics are a few seconds behind. Any one with a comparable system having this occur?

  25. Don't cough up the cash on Keyboarding Love Or Keyboarding Pain · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those of you too cheap to cough up the cash, an excellent weapon against RSI is simple exercises. Every five to ten minutes of typing, stretch your fingers as wide as you can for a couple seconds, then clench your fists as tight as you can for a couple seconds. Repeat a few times.

    This works best as a preventative measure, but also helps lessen the pain if you already have RSI problems