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  1. Re:Why can't you skip a generation? on IBM Leapfrogs Intel With 22nm Chips · · Score: 1

    "Intel has three design teams, in three countries. They compete for the next Intel release."

    I don't think this is right. I can't find any source, but what I found was this:

    "the Bangalore design center is the first Intel team outside the U.S. to complete the design of a 45-nanometer processor [Nehalem], he said."

    http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=21025&monthview=1&month=8&year=2006

    So, the Israel tem didn't actualy compete, but collaborated.

  2. Re:Raytracing scales up far better... on Ray Tracing for Gaming Explored · · Score: 1

    Raytracing is O(resolution), and O(ln(triangles)) Rasterization is O(ln(resolution)), and O(triangles). So, basicaly, raytracing wont be a problem at all in the near future. The human eye have a limit of resolution, so there is not room for infinite improvement of resolution, the infinite doesnt matter. But the number of triangles is boundless, and infinite number is the ideal for the a perfect resolution. So, bascialy in the next 3 or 4 years, resolution will be bascaly a constant, given the eye resolution factor, but the number of triangles will keep scaling up for the sake of realism. So raytracing do have an edge of rasterizing.

  3. Re:New worst idea ever on A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents · · Score: 1

    I guess the idea is simply invalidade software patents.

  4. Gotseman, the Person of The Year on Time Magazine Person of the Year — It's You · · Score: 1

    According to Time Magazine.

  5. NOT ONLY THAT on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Carter is part of an NGO, IPA, sponsored by:

    The IPA has heavily relied on funding from a small number of conservative corporations. Those funders disclosed by the IPA to journalists and media organisations include:

            * Major mining companies - BHP-Billiton and Western Mining Corporation;
            * Pesticides/Genetically modified organisms: Monsanto; and
            * A range of other companies including communications company Telstra, Clough Engineering, Visy, and News Limited;
            * Tobacco companies - Philip Morris (Nahan) and British American Tobacco [8] (http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/08/11/10 60588322537.htm)
            * Oil and gas companies: Caltex, Esso Australia (a subsidiary of Exxon) and Shell [www.ips.org] and Woodside Petroleum; and fifteen major companies in the electricity industry; (Nahan 2)
            * Forestry: Gunns, the largest logging company in Tasmania; (Nahan 3)
            * Murray Irrigation Ltd - a major irrigation company contributed $40,000.[9]

    1)<URL:http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfact sheet.php?id=1134/>

    More on his career:

    2)<URL:http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title= Bob_Carter/>

  6. Re:Welcome, Mr. Anderson on Viruses May be the Precursors of All Life · · Score: 1

    Any living thing without a predator tends to be a plague.

    That's why Smith said the machines would be the cure, they would be the predators.

  7. Re:Don't dress too nicely on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    "Interesting, perhaps, though not a "primate response". It's a result of social constructions! Those social constructions are centered around areas responsible for much anxiety for people in general: work, appearance and hierarchy." Work, appearance and hierarchy are the "primate responses", thus so the social contructions.

  8. I, for one, welcome our new google overlords.... on Google Base Launches · · Score: 1

    because all our base are belong to your.

  9. I, for one, welcome our new google overlords.... on Google Base Launches · · Score: 1

    because all our base are yours.

  10. Re:Like porn. on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we were born with a gun, right beside our sexual organs, we would feel like banning violence for children.

  11. Re:Not the first time... on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    I am from Brazil, and I must say that pinto is not a slang for "small penis", but rather, a childish way of calling a penis. So, it is a very awkward way of calling a car. It would be like naming a car in USA as Wee-Wee

  12. Re:Not the first time... on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions · · Score: 1

    I am from Brazil, and I must say that Pinto is not a slang for "small penis", but rather, just a childish way of calling pinto. So, it seems completely awkward way to call a car. It would be like releasing a car in USA called Wee-Wee

  13. Re:The Matrix Reloaded introduced us... on Cubism For CG And Movies · · Score: 1

    In one of the early scripment (JB sciptment), Neo did made a superman jump, but than a hundred Smiths appeared and grabed him, until the floor. So, he had to fight until he had thrown a great number of Smiths aways, and then, he could fly away. I dont know, but it would be boring. I think it wouldnt make any difference to the plot if it was shortened in a cheap way. If you notice, in that part of the movie, Neo didnt have anything that should be done imediately. After all, he had to wait some time to meet the oracle anyway. So, why not toying with Smith, just for fun ?