User: Yvan256

Re:cool but...

On: YouTube Adds 'Leanback,' Support For 4K Video

There's also Frank, with his 2000 inches TV.

Re:Prior art?

On: Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent

You mean like this?

Re:Windows Phone 7 Has Been Canceled

On: Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums

She was eaten by the elephant in the room.

Re:Pretty Obvious Reasoning

On: Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums

It's well known that a pseudonym enables people to be complete assholes.

Re:Not a new trick

On: Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money

Shrimps are expensive.

Re:Books? Paper, Pencils, Teachers?

On: OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen

Only if each OLPC comes with a towel.

Re:Let them eat laptops!

On: OLPC's XO-1.75 Laptop To Have a Multitouch Screen

Therefore, this is a not so secret scheme to keep the third world the third world.

Why? Is there a free WoW account with each laptop?

Re:save money on postage...

On: Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Offer Students Genetic Testing

Won't somebody think of the postman!

Re:Take that, Steve....

On: Implantable Eye Telescope Finally FDA Approved

Forget your sound effects, all I want is zoom, X-ray vision, night vision and thermal vision options.

Re:Epic Blockbuster

On: Nokia Chases Blogger To Recover N8 Prototype

Think Aliens meets Verizon guy. Here's the title: "In space, can you hear me now?"

The idea sounds good on paper

On: Free Clock Democratizes Atomic Accuracy

Can't wait to see all computers set their clocks to January 1st, 1980.

Re:What about the other scientists?

On: Free Clock Democratizes Atomic Accuracy

You know what they say. When life gives you unclaimed nuclear material, you get busy creating superheroes.

Re:One nets more fish using more streams

On: Activision Wants Consoles To Be Replaced By PCs

Yoda, you master was hum?

Re:Stop getting your

On: Inside the Fake PC Recycling Market

I think you meant "the 3rd episode of the new season of Futurama".

Re:Huh?

On: Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board

That's just more square pixels.

Re:Invented the pixel?

On: Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board

That's not water, it's just single-pixel #00C PNGs.

Re:Indiana Jones was directed by Spielberg

On: George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser'

And they have a plan.

Re:I'll never let go, Firefox. I'll never let go.

On: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

Gecko may not be as fast as WebKit or Presto, but come on... comparing it to Trident?

Fastest to slowest:
WebKit/Presto, Gecko, (insert from 5 to 10 imaginary rendering engines here), Trident.

Re:Not bad

On: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

The drag-to-resize text fields in all websites is wonderful.

Just so people don't start spreading false truths about how Firefox invented that, Safari had that feature a long time ago. If someone knows if Opera had that before Safari, feel free to reply.

WebM

On: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

So... where are the encoders for WebM? Don't give any links to Windows-only programs as it's useless to OSS users.

Re:Maize People

On: Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy

Wow, that's a-maize-ing.

Re:GM

On: Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy

"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Dr. Ian Malcolm

Re:Too narrow

On: Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers

I just reformat every two months, practice safe clicking, and have a separate, isolated machine dedicated to porn and Adobe products.

That's just insane. Did you really think about the risk of infecting all your porn files?

Re:No double-blind?

On: Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth

Make one ferrous metallic (steel), one non-ferrous metallic (aluminium), one non-metallic (plastic) and one gaseous (just to see the confused look on your face).

Re:...not all EM radiation

On: Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth

That would have been a much better scenario than whatever the hell was supposed to be happening in... erm, The Happening.