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  1. Re:beyond what the human eye can see? on HDMI Spec Upgraded To Support 'Deep Color' · · Score: 1

    really? doesn't it give us 65536 shades of each color (16 bits per color)?

  2. WTF? on Will World Cup Streaming Cause Internet Meltdown? · · Score: 1

    Only on Slashdot would a comment like this be modded Insightful instead of Funny... I guess some mods are really clueless about the World Cup.

  3. Re:those poor moles on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1

    you owe me a new keyboard.

  4. Re:Oh .. I get it. on The CVS Cop-Out · · Score: 1

    No, I think he meant binaries. Because if only source is released, then someone will complain that they're not a developer and they can't build the software, etc and they want a binary...

  5. Re:IMDB? on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1
    Ah, I finally was able to enter the site, and I see the DVD is available for sale. But come on, 35 euros? So the future of 3D open movies is no different from the future of hollywood movies? DVD's will be just as expensive, if not more?

    I can foresee the onslaught of comments telling me that this price is justified because of the low expected volume of sales, etc and that I don't have to buy the DVD because I can download the movie in a variety of formats, etc. Please, I was just asking if it was available as a burnable ISO. I guess someone could do the work of putting it into an ISO and redistributing it, if the license allows it...

  6. IMDB? on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Is this movie ever going to have an entry in the IMDB? I'd like to see a rating before I download 450MB...

    Also, it would be cool to have a downloadable ISO, to burn directly to a DVD and watch on a TV instead of in the computer. It's also an easier way to pass it around to non-tech people who would like to watch it.

  7. Re:Struts - A Possible Cure-all? on Web Development - The Line Between Code and Content? · · Score: 1
    Did you check out Tapestry? It's a completely different paradigm from JSP. I never liked Struts because it builds on top of JSP and I hate the JSP paradigm. Tapestry offers more elegant and maintainable design, cleanly separating HTML pages from the dynamic elements that go in the pages and the Java code controlling it all. Plus, everything is a component, and you don't have the limitations you get when using JSP. I would say it's even better than Java Server Faces.

    There is usually some resistance to learn Tapestry from experienced JSP programmers, but if you're doing research and the programmers haven't been using too much JSP because they're still students, then it's a good opportunity to look into something better, even if it's very different from the standard.

  8. Re:I never like this method on Web Development - The Line Between Code and Content? · · Score: 1
    The method is very similar to what is done in Tapestry, except that what you add is an attribute called jwcid to the standard tags. So the designer-coder dialog is more like "just make sure to leave any jwcid attributes you see in any tags, or we'll send you goons to beat you up" and that's it. Shouldn't be a problem.

    Besides, in the GP example, the designer makes the HTML templates first, then the coder adds the weird Zope tags. Maybe a standard html editor wouldn't know what to do with a tal:whatever attribute but a simple jwcid attribute should be left alone by any decent HTML editor.

    this way you don't have weird code in your HTML. As for the problem of changing row colors, you can have a dynamic attribute that renders as just a CSS class name and it will change the value. I don't know if Zope does it but Tapestry does... something like <TR class="ognl:swappedRowClass"> and then have a getSwappedRowClass that returns alternating class names each time it's called.

  9. Re:Slashdotted? on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1

    Still, I don't remember ever seeing Apple's site so slow (or getting a timeout trying to view a page on the site), and I usually check the site when something new comes up. New iPods, Powerbooks, MacBook Pros (or MacBooks Pro, whatever), PowerMacs, OSX versions, etc haven't been a cause for this before, that I remember...

  10. Slashdotted? on Apple Unveils New Macbook · · Score: 1

    I never thought I would see this, but I can't enter apple.com, it seems it's finally been slashdotted.

  11. Re:Simple answer... on Eight Hour Coding Session Causes DVT · · Score: 1

    More commonly known as "the Wally Therapy"

  12. Re:But ... on Wildlife Defies Chernobyl Radiation · · Score: 1

    You forgot to start with In Soviet... oh, never mind.

  13. Re:iTunes is just fine. on Improve Your iPod with Rockbox · · Score: 1

    You can listen to complete albums on an iPod. Someone else already posted the way to do it, so I just want to add that you can configure your iPod to randomly play songs BY ALBUM... go to Settings and click on Shuffle until it says Albums. When you play music in shuffle mode, it will play all the songs from the same album in the album order, then jump to another album. It works this way when you're listening to a playlist, or all albums from an artist, or all albums from all artists. iTunes ALSO does this; go to Preferences, Playback, and there's an options that says "shuffle: songs, albums, groupings". select Albums and it will have the same effect as on the iPod.

    To sort songs by album on your main list in iTunes, click on the title bar of the Album column and that's it... all songs ordered by album, in the order of each album. Or click on the Artist column title bar and it will sort all songs by artist, THEN by album (alphabetically).

  14. Re:Women, porn and "women's porn" on Pr0n's Effect On Society · · Score: 1

    I just read your journal entry on that show. Man, my eyes are open... everything is clear to me now. I never could understand why my ex liked that damn show so much but now it's obvious. Thanks.

  15. Palahniuk on Device Developed To Help Socially Challenged · · Score: 1
    It only tells you if you're boring someone to death, but it's not that helpful since people who have this kind of problem usually won't know what to do in this case. Reminds me of a line from Diary: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk:
    Knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
  16. Re:Missing the point on MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs · · Score: 1
    but many small non-tech-savvy people with websites are going to be hit by this
    Dude, didn't you get the memo? Leave the Tuttle guy alone, he's suffered enough humiliation! :)
  17. Re:Ocean has more than one side. on Ballmer Won't Dismiss Idea of Suits Against Linux · · Score: 1

    You don't even have to go that far. Software patents are not valid here in Mexico, and if I understood correctly what a lawyer friend told me, software patents have been declared invalid already, so it's not like in Europe where patents are not valid yet... so, come host your Linux boxes in data centers here (cue the jokes about the horses and sombreros and all that shit, but there are some good data centers here).

  18. Re:Great news for my wife! on Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1
    It may be that protective factors in chiles -- such as antioxidants -- compensate for any potential harm from capsaicin. Or possibly the hot-pepper eaters in Mexico City have other practices that decrease their risk of stomach cancer -- such as high consumption of fruits and vegetables and low consumption of smoked meat and fish, pickled foods, alcohol and cigarettes.
    Dude, I live in Mexico City, and trust me... it's not the reduced consumption of alcohol and cigarrettes. I mean, pretty much everybody here smokes and drinks (at different levels of course). Low consumption of fish -- I'll buy that, since it's expensive in Mexico City. Smoked meat? I guess I can say it's common to eat smoked meat. Some people eat a lot of fruit and vegetables, but a lot of people only eat fruit as a dessert. Breakfasts here are usually spicy (chilaquiles, enchiladas, eggs with salsa, carnitas, barbacoa, etc) as well as dinners and obviously lunch. Plus we have the worst air quality in the whole planet. So I think it can be the chiles after all that are helping decrease the cancer risk...
  19. Smashing Pumpkins? on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 1

    What the hell does James Iha have to do with the crusades?

    Oh, ihad, never mind...

  20. Re:It reminds me of portknocking... on Unlock Your Doors With a Knock Code · · Score: 1

    Except that to be similar, you would need to knock a sequence on your window, front door, back door, another window, etc to make the front door open...

  21. Re:I heard that there is a secret code.. on Get Out of Voice Menu Pergatory · · Score: 1

    too bad nobody got the LOST numbers reference.

  22. Re:One problem with them going mainstream on Apple Planning Intel iBook Debut for January? · · Score: 1

    I think someone watched that movie Hackers too many times.

  23. Re:Here in mexico on Continued Look at Global Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it depends on WHERE you live in Mexico. 1000 dollars a month is a good salary on certain small cities, but certainly not in Mexico City, where the cost of living is much higher, but so are the salaries (usually). A single guy needs to earn about 2000 dollars a month if he wants to rent an apartment for himself (say 500 dollars a month in a so-so area).

  24. Re:The 2.7 kernel and the Chewbacca "Defense" on SCO Demands Linux 2.7 Information · · Score: 1

    Oh come on.

    Here, look at the silly monkey.

  25. mind reader on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 3, Funny

    SELECT * FROM whatever the hell my customers have in mind