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  1. Re:Video Streams? on Experimental Virtual Graphics Port Support For Linux · · Score: 1

    Perhaps JACK would be a better example?

  2. Video Streams? on Experimental Virtual Graphics Port Support For Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sounds like we're going to be able to start passing around video in the way PulseAudio lets you connect various devices together, and make it easier to handle miniature external/secondary displays. Though the biggest benefit seems to be of an easy way to pass rendered 3D content directly to a web stream or over some remote desktop connection.

    Does anyone know if this would this provide a performance boost over something like VNC for similar things? Or how about the possibility to pass rendered output as a fake video capture card input to a virtual machine? I think I get what this does, but I'm kind of wondering how exactly it's better than current solutions to these problems.

  3. Re:3D ready on Crysis 2 Update a Perfect Case of Wasted Polygons · · Score: 1

    4th spatial dimension. None of this time-as-a-dimension BS.

  4. Re:What's it like in Japan? Will this cause change on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    No reason they couldn't if all the clocks were on their own circuit.

  5. Documentation? on Nokia Gives Some Hints On the Future of Qt · · Score: 1

    Are they going to finally get all their documentation up to date? For a prototype application I tried using Qt and found the documentation to be conflicting, and where it wasn't conflicting, it was just generally lacking.

  6. Re:what about this on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    It is possible. The router could even have an IPv6 address for every private IPv4 address, and translate between them. Is this practical? If you're willing to pay more than $40 for a router (or use a repurposed computer), it could be.

  7. Re:not the highest resolution: 8k super hi-vision on YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    "Vector pixels" are squares of color, so you might as well just use a regular camera for that case. What you want is something that can detect shapes and textures separately. You can try to vectorize the textures, too, but once you start scaling you're still going to be lacking in anything of decent quality as it can only see the color and gradients. It'd have to know the physical makeup of the material to keep getting more detailed. At which point you might as well just do it CG.

  8. Re:Rochester NY area on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1

    Felt it on the third floor; just outside of Rochester. Was certainly not something I thought I'd experience here.

  9. Re:Pentium 4? on The Go-Anywhere Cyber Cafe In a Shipping Container · · Score: 1

    Boy I ought to read more before posting. Someone brought the same dang thing up right below here.

  10. Re:Pentium 4? on The Go-Anywhere Cyber Cafe In a Shipping Container · · Score: 1

    Not to mention a Core 2 Duo would probably put out half as much heat.

  11. Newsgroups... on Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released · · Score: 1

    So, are they ever going to add combine-and-decode support? Maybe even support for other encoding formats?

  12. Re:An ignobel first. on 2009 Ig Nobels Awarded, For Gas-Mask Bras and More · · Score: 1

    Physics - Presented to David Schmidt of the University of Massachusetts, for his partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect: a shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken.

    Oh, now I have to read the article to see if there's a way to counter act this!

  13. Loud on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's nice, but the music track is too loud compared to the voice.

  14. Re:Interesting on Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert · · Score: 1

    Freeze to death? Not inside my computer!

  15. Re:Port of Hamburg on Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like you're giving robots guns.

  16. Re:New energy source!?! on Breakthrough in Electricity-Producing Microbe · · Score: 1

    Mike Rowe's been saying that for a fair while. I bet he'll come out with his own version of these, though. "Mike Rowe's Microbes"

  17. Re:Greatly improved quality? on NASA Has the Lost Tapes · · Score: 5, Informative

    They pointed a TV camera at a monitor displaying the SSTV footage so it would be compatible with TV broadcasts, hence lower quality.

  18. Re:The real question on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1

    Judging by its size, it's more likely to just be pushed along when hit by a Hummer than to be t-boned in any real manner.

  19. Re:Guilds Wars method on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    Tabula Rasa had something similar to this, where you had way points that you could acquire once you got to a region. There was wormholes for traveling between planets (But not as many as way points, so you still had to do some way point hopping). And you could buy personal way points so if you were in the middle of nowhere and needed to get back to a fort, you could just drop one and teleport back.

    Overall it was a pretty good system, but there were still occasionally areas that required a bit of trekking, though generally only a few minutes at most.

  20. Re:Think of the birds! on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not really. African swallows are nonmigratory.

  21. Re:Use the line to pull other lines into your outl on You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What? · · Score: 1

    You technically need Cat5E for the full 100 meters with gigabit, but plain Cat5 isn't really sold anymore. Cat 6 was originally designed for Gb, but then Cat5E came along. They started designing Cat7 for 10Gb, but then Cat6A came along and does 10Gb for the 100 meters.

  22. Re:Enough already, Apple on Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link · · Score: 1

    It's still censorship, regardless of whether or not they're allowed to do it. Heck, you can censor yourself if you really want to. I imagine most people bought one assuming the censorship would be limited to the content inside the applications themselves, not of what someone might load from the Internet. If Apple's doing that, they might as well just remove web browsing.

  23. Re:...Why? on Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity · · Score: 1

    You don't need power if you get the old dial ones.

    Chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-chk Click.
    chk-chk-chk-chk Click.
    chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-chk-...

  24. Re:Millenium 2 on Microsoft Not Ditching Vista Until At Least 2011 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If by "features" you mean "lines of code forged by the devil himself," then yes. Or so I've heard.

  25. Re:Interesting spin on Quake Live Dev Says Mac and Linux Are "Top Priority" · · Score: 1

    W:ET was never actually an expansion to RTCW, it was a standalone game. However the single-player portion fell through and they wound up releasing the game as a free standalone game.