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  1. Re:Microsoft WORD? on Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch · · Score: 1

    I would love to have that feature, but have never found it in either Word or OpenOffice.

  2. Re:how did this get modded up? on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On LEDs in hallways and such: if you have several lamps in one fixture, you can put one LED and fill the others with CFLs. That way you'll get quick and bright light where you need it, and the CFLs follow smoothly, working as "floods".

  3. Re:Good for everyone on Rupert Murdoch Publishes North Korean Flash Games · · Score: 1

    Those are some of the strangest product images I've ever seen. Not to mention the style, are those loose fit jeans the new fashion?

  4. Re:So where's the "close" button this time? on Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Choose a different theme.

  5. Re:Get Hell off the Planet!!! on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    No, we won't, the crisis has pretty much been averted. Population will still increase drastically before it starts planing out or even falling, but that's only lag in the system.

  6. Re:I love LaTeX, but really, now on Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids In Khan Academy · · Score: 1

    How so? I had only ever used Word and OpenOffice before, nor had I ever written Latex manually in my life, yet I've successfully written papers with LyX, and found it far easier to use than the black magic required for word processors. Also, less bugs encountered than with either word processor.

  7. Re:Problem with this.... on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1
    It doesn't matter what one photon does, since on average, many photons will "fill up" the probability space. Photons originating from one point will hit one sensor site with some probability, and the sites next to it with some lower probability, and that distribution ends up being the blur you see. Supposing the sites are that tiny, of course.

    You're right about the sensor not having this problem, though it's slightly closer than you indicate:
    An image on 135 film is 36x24mm, and APS-H has a crop factor of 1.3, so we get: (24mm/1.3)/9184 pixels = 2010 nm per pixel, which is 2.6 times the lowest wavelength (760nm or so).

  8. Re:Not today.... on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1

    The trouble is with the limits of physics, rather than with the engineering...

  9. Re:Poor solution on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    Have some ISO 8601, and do things the smart way.

  10. Re:Their equipment, their choice. on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 1

    And what's wrong with that? It's not a service provided for the benefit of HR, nor do facebook users use it with that expectation, generally.

  11. Re:Reboot is such a poor word on Microsoft Reboots Two Classic PC Games · · Score: 1
    The software can radically change with a reboot.

    Rebooting a show or series is like pressing the reset button: everything is cleared from the table and begun anew, but still with the same hardware basis. However, what happens in the boot sequence? Which OS do you choose in grub? Is there a live cd in the drive? You might end up somewhere completely different compared with before the reboot, even though the underlying principles are exactly the same. Similarly with shows and series, the subsequent seasons and games = boot sequence.

  12. Re:ahh, the "singularity"... on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    Nope, hammers don't do jack. Humans build better hammers. A hammer being used in the betterment process is coincidental, as is the hammer factory.

  13. Re:ahh, the "singularity"... on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    regarding the singularity: do computers not already participate to some degree in their own design/construction.

    Yes, but hammers don't build houses.

  14. Re:Battery availability might be a concern. on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 2, Informative

    He lives (and goes hunting) in Alaska, and they don't have GPS in most of the state because of how far north it is. He could not see enough satellites to determine his position. I was stunned to think that GPS didn't work up there. I had no idea, and neither did my dad.

    Nonsense, Alaska isn't far north. Most of it is on the same latitude as Finland, and we have no problems with GPS here. In fact, you can go to the north pole and have your GPS tell you you're at N 90 degrees. I think your dad was probably between too many mountains.

  15. Re:Blocked on EFF Asks Verizon Whether Etisalat Deserves CA Trust · · Score: 1, Funny

    Trying to keep costumers in the dark as usual.

    Yes, how will the wardrobe purveyors follow this news thread now??

  16. Re:good thing it wasn't a watermelon seed on Man Takes Up Internal Farming · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking more like this.

  17. Re:Hydro FTW on Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover · · Score: 1

    It's something to think about though, small-scale hydro plants that pump water between a huge tank sunk into a hill, and a large water body.

  18. Re:Video games on Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Non-dextrous?

  19. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 1

    Do you mean fully electronic pianos or acoustic pianos with MIDI fitted? Either way I've seen and played on many, and I have never seen labeling of any kind. Any examples?

  20. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still confused? B# is used so that each note name appears only once in the scale.

  21. Re:C-sharp on How Can an Old-School Coder Regain His Chops? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you need pianos with the keys clearly marked, you're probably not the best person to ask for advice on music theory.

  22. Re:What is the issue? on Broadway Musicians Replaced With Synthesizers · · Score: 1

    There's just one problem: the knowledge that it is a human that is playing is part of the experience. Maybe that's discriminatory, or racist agaionst robots, but there's no way around that one until AI is considered a person. Experiencing music is a human thing, so it's hard to decouple it from humanity.

  23. Re:Interestingly simple concept on Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically · · Score: 1

    It's usually recommended to turn off IS when you put the camera on a tripod.

  24. Re:Enhance on Microsoft Tech Can Deblur Images Automatically · · Score: 1
    Oh it's actually quite simple, because that's what every pocket or pro camera with image stabilization does today. They have accelerometers that measure vibration and small movement, then apply the opposite either to a movable sensor, or to a lens element. What this research team appears to do is exactly the same, except after the fact in software using deconvolution rather than moving bits of hardware. While that's useful, it's also rather computationally intensive if there's a lot of blur, especially if using up to 30-100 pixel kernels like TFA says, so I don't expect to see it in a phone next year.

    Theoretically, there's an advantage though: in-camera stabilization has physical limits to how much the lens/sensor can move, while software is only limited by CPU power, frame edges, and bit depth.

  25. Re:Dumbasses @ FBI on DefCon Contest Rattles FBI's Nerves · · Score: 1

    You must be confused. Education does not affect one's ability to not get fooled in the first place, so there's no reason to under-rate it as you do.