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  1. Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP on School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fart apps changed the world. True story.

  2. Re:My take? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? · · Score: 1

    That's why you upgrade to a dual hemisphere CPU.

  3. Re:Happy on First Impressions of Windows 8 Powered Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 · · Score: 1

    Seems that everyone was cool with the FRAND licensing terms Nokia had. Everyone except the new kid on the block.

  4. Re:Are you serious? on Some Players Want Day-1 DLC, Says BioWare · · Score: 0

    I totally agree with you.

    However, if you look at the situation like a scum-sucking marketing drone, then making day 1 DLC while the dev team is 'idle' is an extremely low hanging fruit that might generate a few extra MILLION...

    Solution: have less marketing drones involved in the industry.

  5. Re:A shame for Ouya if not kept alive on Trouble At OnLive · · Score: 1

    We only accept luminance-subsampled images, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Going to take an unpopular position. on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 1

    Releasing credit card records wouldn't cause an Arab Spring.

    Or would it ;)

  7. Re:Previous Charges on Cables Show US Seeks Assange · · Score: 1

    Rhetorical question: do they have to interview murder suspects before filing charges?

    If you need to conduct an interview before filing charges then that tells me the crime is not all that serious to begin with. And if the crime is not serious and requires an INTERVIEW before proceeding, then the UK government storming the embassy should REALLY raise some eyebrows...

    Storm an embassy with loaded guns over an interview-requiring crime? If Assange is extradited his first (and last) stop will be at Gitmo...

  8. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    And you got assaulted by the shipped rifle...

  9. Re:Nice Ad Placement or DEA Honeypot on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    Busting people who copy data is an even LOWER hanging fruit than arresting people for drugs...

  10. Re:I can't not wait. on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    And you say this on a linux oriented website.

  11. Re: the idiot man on Critics Blast Apple's Cheesy New Ad Campaign · · Score: 1

    You just complained about southern while males being labeled racist and then YOU WENT AND SAID RACIST THINGS.

  12. Somebody patent it! on An Olympic Games For Enhanced Athletes? · · Score: 1

    "A novel approach to enhancing athletic performance in an officially sanctioned, augmentation supported sporting event"

  13. Flamed on New Analyst Report Calls Agile a Scam, Says It's An Easy Out For Lazy Devs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I realize I might get flamed for this, but I wanted to say it anyway: I think agile is a complete waste of time. Its micro management wrapped up in a fancy, marketable term.

    I've been a senior developer for about 8 years now. Never used Agile, never had a need to. Hire the right people and there is no need for agile.

    Ok, my flame suit is on.

  14. Hello, Mr Iraqi Minister on RIM CEO: 'There's Nothing Wrong With the Company' · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Hardware acceleration? on VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain you can achieve 30fps playback of 720p content when it is main profile (not high profile) using a multithreaded decode (even without NEON). There's some apps in the market that do this. Damned if I can't remember their name. I had a Xoom (it died a few months back) and purchased it on release day. The nvidia supplied video decoder couldn't do HW acceleration of high profile decoding at release so there was a bunch of people on XDA trying to figure out how to play their video rips. Someone found this video player app that could utilize the multiple cores of Tegra2 to decode the video. It worked pretty well. I imagine NEON would great enhance that decode process.

    My personal experience with NEON code cannot really be shared (or even discussed) due to NDA. But I can say that I was surprised how powerful NEON is on those dinky mobile processors....

  16. Re:Hardware acceleration? on VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're not gonna get hardware acceleration any better than what the device manufacturer supplies via their include 'video' app.

    Getting access to those HW accelerated video decoders is very black box in nature. Notice how the article mentions requiring the NEON instruction set. VLC must be using the simd instruction set called NEON to do the decoding.

    Surprisingly, you can achieve a good amount of performance by using NEON in your code (I've used it myself).

  17. Re:A foul subject. on Making Saltwater Drinkable With Graphene · · Score: 1

    Your post is funny considering that beer is yeast piss.

  18. Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Web apps? LOL...

    How's that sand-boxed browser working for you? Do you have all the hardware acceleration you need? Can you churn out simd code using the NEON registers of the ARM chip? Got access to the camera, GPS & accelerometer? Are you getting all the multithreaded performance you desire?

    No, you're not constrained AT ALL...

  19. Re:why is that needed? on Quiet Victories Won In the Loudness Wars · · Score: 2

    ^^^Agreed. Some of my favorite bands are big label bands. Other favorites are indie label bands...

    Why limit your musical taste based on the frickin record label? Seems retarded if you ask me...

  20. On-Once Th-There W-Was... on Voice Algorithms Spot Parkinson's Disease · · Score: 1

    T-T-T-Today Junior!

  21. Robot speak on Google CEO Larry Page Says "Nothing Seriously Wrong" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lost his voice? That doesn't seem to make Hawking miss any meetings...

  22. Re:WTF? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 1

    I'm not a hardware guy... but is a faraday cage adequate enough to absorb the cell signal?

    http://www.briangreen.net/2010/11/diy-ultralight-faraday-cage-pouch.html

    Could the cage be tweaked to only block the cell signal and let wifi through? Then do VOIP calls over free public wifi?

    I could be wrong about all this, but if you think of tracking as a form of DRM, then perhaps it can be "cracked"...

    We had 'pirate' radio, where is the pirate ISP....

    If congress makes it illegal to NOT be tracked, then we're in a very bad place as a country...

  23. Re:WTF? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 2

    If that scenario ever came to light I would make it my life goal to hack that tracking functionality.

    A digital, freedom-fighter kind of hacking...

    I'm dead serious.

    People are so scared of technology being used to track everyone, and rightfully so.

    But can' technology ALSO be used to UN-track people?

    Just look at tor and bitcoin as embryonic examples of what I am trying to get at...

  24. Re:Native code on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 2

    ^^^ Jesus H Tap-dancing Christ why do I still come to this site....

  25. Re:Monumental failure. on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    that user squiggleslash is certainly NOT doing cross platform native mobile app development.

    he's angry and full of misinformation.

    only a fool would look at iOS and android and think "lets write ALL the code twice, once in objC and once in Java"