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  1. Re:Nexus S on Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    android 2.3 hold within it flags for larger screens then 2.2 and earlier had. This allows a app to load custom graphics and such for larger resolutions and screen dimensions, adapting to the larger surface area in the process.

    Hell, there is a demo out there where webos adapts the interface of the email app as the screen size (browser window, as they where using chrome to demo it) changed. Basically it went from a single pane to a 3 pane as the available space got wider.

    I can see something similar be done in android now that the right information is provided to the apps.

  2. Re:It's not easy on The Challenge In Delivering Open Source GPU Drivers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How many gaping issues are left unresolved because microsoft is maintaining a stable ABI?

  3. Re:short term skimming on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    and each year it will get worse, as some 3 billion and change (with compound interest) will need to find a place to be invested to keep the growth rate of the global economy that one have come to expect since the industrial revolution.

  4. Re:Quite computers? on NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets · · Score: 1

    could be they are runking everything off ram and ssd so to minimize latency. Less moving parts equals less overall noise.

  5. Re:Hmmmmm on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 2

    So basically a kind of psychological uncertainty principle?

  6. Re:Virtually unchallenged? on Samsung Set To Introduce Android-Based iPod Touch Competitor · · Score: 2

    the CDD for 2.3 seems to have turned a whole lot of MUST in to SHOULD when it comes to hardware requirements, so things are changing. I may well be that we will see official market and google apps on whatever archos device that gets 2.3, if they can be bothered to have a talk with google.

  7. Re:Ship Source? on Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance · · Score: 1

    I guess that is what http://www.linaro.org/ is trying to organize.

  8. Re:Shocking news: on PC Gamers Crush Console Brethren · · Score: 1

    funny enough, the PS3 can take keyboard and mouse input via usb. But games need to support that.

    this on top of various converters and at least one custom mouse and keyboard kit that to the console appears to be a controller.

    There is also at least one converter device for xbox360 that seems to produce a very PC like feel for FPS games.
    http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/01/xim3-final-hardware-revealed-coming-soon-to-give-an-unfair-adva/

  9. Re:Well on A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred · · Score: 1

    What will be interesting is to, 10 years down the road when this have gotten some revisions done, set up the musical equivalent of a turing test.

  10. Re:Well on A Guitar Robot That Can Really Shred · · Score: 1

    Refinements are likely to be made, given time.

  11. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    And this is a blight on all Modern democracies around the world.

  12. Re:Reading up on this more I found... on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 1

    i suspect the quality is better then in-store cameras. as they may be from the early VHS era (complete with a single tape that have been recycled for decades).

  13. Re:IRDA was 4 Mbps on Using LED Ceiling Lights For Digital Communication · · Score: 1

    docomo demoed a one gigabit/s irda transfer a year or two ago.

  14. Re:Not all ethanol is created the same on Once-Darling Ethanol Losing Friends In High Places · · Score: 1

    How many senators do various corporations sponsor?

  15. Re:Well done, Cambridge. on UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication · · Score: 1

    and that last line sums all rent based businesses...

  16. Re:Not so much on Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    indeed. Said "law" can either increase the number of transistors pr core, or drop the cost pr core as one manage to fit more cores pr wafer and so increase production yields.

  17. Re:No More Deregulation on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 1

    and regulation is in essence anti-monopolistic.

  18. Re:No More Deregulation on How the Free Market Rocked the Grid · · Score: 1

    the merchant middleman, he will sell you anything.

  19. Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I keep envisioning something like those big slow wheels found on steam trains, but checking the actual topic online presents me with a much more compact but high speed system. I suspect there is some crazy materials involved in the connection between flywheel and dynamo when it comes time to dump the energy into the rail.

  20. Re:Convenience in some situations on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    was there not a iphone payment terminal solution presented recently? Basically a small magnetic strip reader that one plugged into the headphone jack, and a program that turned the "noise" into credit card data?

  21. Re:Go electronic! on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    Do they carry the payment terminal strapped to their thigh?

    or is it a case of buying house "bills" that one can then stuff down the g-string?

  22. Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    Especially if one can have staggered banks of capacitors sitting, so that one or more bank charges while another is used to get the aircraft up. Unless the turbines of the reactor can power these things directly without any need for buildup. Then its a simple question of flipping the switch.

  23. Re:and we should also... on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    not sure who is engaging in straw man arguments here...

  24. Re:and we should also... on Recording the Police · · Score: 1

    Rent-a-thug from blackwater/xe today to protect yourself, your property, and those you love, from the monsters lurking out there...

  25. Re:9 times out of 10? on Recording the Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many of them get a lower wage because of the "tip"?