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  1. Re:Netcraft confirms: on New Advance In 3D TV Technology · · Score: 3, Informative

    You, like Myself and about 15% of the population don't view the world perfectly stereoscopically. therefore Fake3D!!!!! just leads to headaches and poor view performances.

    If you don't need glasses, it is a start. but the real trick will be is it just another illusion or is it a hybrid of real, and fake 3D to give actual depth to images.

  2. Re:Apple misdirection? on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 2

    Ah but this is apple.

    Apple is working on everything conceivable all the time. They only submit it to production once they are sure it works reasonably well, and they can make a decent margin on it without killing existing product lines. Until then it is applesauce.

    the iPhone started as a tablet, that got shrunk because they couldn't do the tablet correctly(power, weight, cpu, etc) There were rumors of I 86 based darwin(the OS X Kernel) at the time OS X was orginially launched.

    Apple hedges lots of bets internally. but it won't plunk down the cash for full production until certian conditions are met.

    Samsung and sony, and Microsoft, and etc. have been doing smart watches, or even bluetooth connected watches for literally decades(Microsoft timex was what 1995?). The Datalink even has some fans today. If apple is finally going to do it it just means the tech has advanced enough to put a 1080P screen on the watch to play iads without stuttering.

  3. It might be true but on How Beer Gave Us Civilization · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real reason beer was important was that it was clean water. brewing beer kills off most of the bad things in fresh water supplies.

    Lower inhibitions isn't a factor until after we had started forming cities and groups of more than a couple hundred.

  4. Re:They beauty of smart phones on Lamenting the Demise of Hangups · · Score: 1

    I have done it and have it done to me, however a sudden hangup is more about timing as opposed violent response. As the other party never hears that crash of the phone hitting the receiver by that point the phone call was already over.

    Ring tones yea that I agree with being able to modify ring tones so a room full of (popular brand name of phone) everybody doesn't reach into their pockets, but most of them are just plain wrong.

  5. Re:Yeah, let's do that... on Smartest Light Bulbs Ever, Dumbest Idea Ever? · · Score: 1

    Ah your thinking like an engineer and not a consumer.

    You don't get smart sockets until you get a device that can be put into smart sockets. You build wireless bulbs today. You build wireless switches today. in a couple of years you introduce a low bandwidth intent over powerline for light bulbs. That way you can renovate and build new your home with such things already in place and know they work.

    I don't know about you but the average person doesn't rip their walls down every 10 years to upgrade the wiring inside. You have to be able to trust the tech your installing to last. the internet itself is barely legal to drink in the USA.

    Also at least with the philips bulbs they are very much usable from regular switches right now. you just get fancier features if you use a fancier remote.

  6. Re:Windows 7 on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1, Informative

    chrome and Firefox doesn't support windows ME, or win 2K what is your point? MSFT doesn't support windows XP and Vista is about to lose it's support and security updates. Try finding a commercial entity that is actively supporting Linux 2.2 or 2.4 kernel with full bug support? Sure there is a handful of community groups but nothing I would put money on.

    I don't know about you but I tend to buy new hardware every 5-6 years anyways.

    So tell me again how apple is evil for doing exactly the same thing as EVERY ONE ELSE?

  7. Re:Windows 7 on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: -1

    Then again your talking 6 years+ later, the hardware has gotten better, why shouldn't the software do as well?

    While it has been a year since I last booted up linux not having to custom write x config files for mutlimonitor setups, being able to do something simple like hot swap monitors of varying resolutions while not having to shut down is a feature of OS X from at least 2002 that you couldn't find in any linux distribution in the beginning of 2012

  8. Re:Easy resale! on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    then your accounting dept needs to stop hobbling the purchasing dept.

    as a company purchaser i have access to a company credit for such things.

  9. Re:It doesn't work. No game support. on Triple Monitor Solutions From AMD, Nvidia Face Off · · Score: 1

    Office 2010 opens on the monitor and size it was when last opened. I do it all the time with remote desktop, bouncing between one and two monitor setups.

    However that said. it takes registry hacks to break Office 2010 out of the archaic every window must open inside of the master window mentality. It really sucks trying to run two spread sheets side by side on two different monitors and still be able to see background apps.

  10. Re:Create the next internet on Contiki Turns Ten · · Score: 0

    Ah but I want to to live in milkyway.org.universe.0042 They already have the answers.

  11. God gave Man two legs for a reason.

    If god wanted man to abuse animals he would have made them run slower than man.

    Therefore use your god given legs and walk.

  12. Re:It's the bonus that concerns me on Moon Mining Race Under Way · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite scenario is we take all the leading moon landing hoax people to the apollo landing sites and ask them to remove their helmets.

    That will shut them up.

  13. Re:The enemy of my enemy on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 2

    Except when there is a republican in the white house rand paul wouldn't be doing this very same filibuster.

    Have you forgotten that for 8 years a republican was in the white house and for 6 of those years he had a republican congress to pass all sorts of stuff.

    Not only did nothing get done, it directly led to the 2008- recession.

    Because the republicans cut taxes, cut interest rates, and cut didn't cut spending. we are facing the biggest default in history. Obama is said to have out spent Bush. all Obama has done is put that debt on the books. where Bush had it buried.

    Remember people government income is in taxes. if you cut taxes and do not immediately cut spending by at least an equal amount you create debt that must be paid back later. This fact is something the republican loves to ignore.

  14. Re:It doesn't work. No game support. on Triple Monitor Solutions From AMD, Nvidia Face Off · · Score: 1

    um office 97 is 16 years out of date

    at least use

    run iTunes, play anything full screen, video, visualizer, etc watch all other monitors fade

  15. Re:It doesn't work. No game support. on Triple Monitor Solutions From AMD, Nvidia Face Off · · Score: 1

    Actually multimontior support is generally broken across most applications not just games.

    Run a full screen flash video on one and see what happens when you click your mouse on one of the other ones.

    Most apps that run in full screen break under multi-montor setups. they just can't be used that way.

  16. Re:That's not a drone on Drone Comes Within 200 Feet of Airliner Over New York · · Score: 4, Insightful

    one simple one.

    a drone is flown by camera's and a video downlink.

    an RC plane is flown from the ground by the pilot's eyes.

    RC plane's rarely get more than a 1000' feet away as they become very hard to control.

  17. Re:Before all you blowhards cheer the Feds ... on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    You do realize the ecuadorean government makes the crap the USA government has done look good right? Oh and Ecuador is currently running Wikileaks. And you can't prove otherwise As Assage won't let go control of wikileaks and is hiding out in a Ecuadorean Embassy.

    Since those documents wikileaks hasn't really done anything. Everything big they say they have release has been oh that's well known.

    So how isn't wikileaks not being influenced by political pressure?

  18. Re:Arab Spring on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    really? from where i sit I see more blood thirsty militants in control of weapons they dont understand.

    is Egypt really better off right now? 15% of the population is hiding in fear of their lives from the current ruling class. The leadership has taken massive steps to become ever bit as violent and dangerous as Murbak was.

    Libya? sure that jerk Ghadiffi is gone, but you can't walk around there without bribes and armor plating.
    Syria? still burning going into the 3 year of a civil war.

    Iraq? nope still a mess, Iran still trying to build nukes,

    Jordan? there is still a king though he gave up some random powers to the congress so maybe you can put that in the win column.

    Yep Arab Spring sure was good.

    Saddam Hussien might originally have been a puppet who became a real boy. But he kept sectarian violence down, and relative peace between the violent versions of Islam.

  19. Re:Give us the keys! on Evernote Security Compromised · · Score: 2

    Because if you haven't figured it out people are on average stupid idiots.

    Take email encryption. After 20+ years there still isn't an easy to use way to send encrypted emails to anyone and get the appropriate security keys.

    that means everyone is using plain text email still.

  20. Re:Aquafilter pumping on Florida Sinkhole Highlights State's Geologic Instability · · Score: 4, Funny

    sounds like god is getting his chain saw out to cut florida out of the USA.

    It is only old folks and cubans anyways there really isn't anything to be missed there.

  21. Re:reluctant? on Cablevision Suing Viacom Over Cable Bundling · · Score: 1

    Why would ratings drop? New customers don't get counted in ratings sweeps it is all averages anyways.

    Remember They still count you if your TV is off but your cable box is on(like is generally required for DVR's to function). So while my TV hasn't been on in 2 days My cable box has been recording a show.(yea just one there is only one Between Wedensday and Saturday that I care enough to keep up with).

    The only reason I have a full cable package at all is because I wanted ONE station that wasn't in the smaller bundles. That for just two programs. I am considering dropping it all together and just use Netflix all the time.

  22. Re:Doesn't work on Cliff Bleszinski: Vote With Your Dollars · · Score: 2

    It doesn't matter.

    If a publish cons 1 million people into buying the game and 20% buy DLC it is still considered a win, even though 10 million more won't touch the game because of those things.

    Not buying a product means your not a part of the desired consumer group that the publisher is targeting.

    Take always on requirements, the publishers lose game sales by the tens of millions because of poor network connections. however the publishers would rather say fuck off to those people than try to sell them something. Since the publishers have 10 million sales, losing 10-30 % of that is no big deal since it can't be quantified.

  23. Re:It's the law on BigDog Robot Grabs, Lifts, and Throws Cinder Blocks With Its New Arm · · Score: 1

    I can see hundreds of uses for a robot that can pick up heavy objects move over unimproved, uneven, terrain including stairs. And set it back down again.

    Heck even if I have to plug it into a job site generator it would be useful.

    Of course it would put another 20% of the work force out of jobs but who cares

  24. Re:Simple Fix on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a company needs investors. The trick is Wall street isn't about investing it is a gambling addiction.

    Seriously for one month make all trades last for a minimum of 1 hour. and watch the volume dry up. As Day trading bankers actually have to invest in companies instead of gambling.

  25. Re:Simple Fix on When It's Time To Scale, US Manufacturing Hits a Wall · · Score: 1

    So your saying because of corporate bought, non capitalist, anti-competition tariffs gun manufacturers can be competitive.

    And we should reduce government regulations according to the conservatives.