User: smalgin

Re:Make a digital copy

On: Ask Slashdot: An 'Ex Libris' For My Books In a Digital Age?

Thank you, I also have a digital library and it is quite large. Some books (art albums) lose all appeal in digital form, unless you throw in free 48-inch Retina display to view them.

Working link from boingboing

On: Lawyer Asks RIAA To Investigate Bush Twins

http://thescrivener.blogspot.com/2007/06/copyright -is-dead.html

Not really usefil

On: Passively Multiplayer Gaming

The only problem with imagining thy life as a game is that there are suddenly no real challenges - only game challenges. This is why this approach is severely limited. Still, it's sometimes useful - in psych. self-help studies, for instance. _______________________ No mod points in this thread

Strange -no one ever mentioned "Pacem in Terris"

On: The Robot Professor

A book "Pacem in Terris" by S. Lem is actually quite comprehensive on a matter of remotely controlled androids. ______________________ So... no mod points in this thread

Nice!

On: Change of Focus for Liquid Crystals

Wow, a device from the 'Dune'. they had neat binoculars based on the same principle if I remember correctly...

Re:BOFH

On: 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com

I second this.

Re:slashdotted

On: Going Deep Inside Vista's Kernel Architecture

1. >Click on link + server not responding + hosted on a microsoft server +MS publicity = slashdotted
2. ???
3. Profit!

Prior art

On: Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent

At least one part of this encoding method - converting floating-point to non-negative integers - looks like prior art.
For instance, ESRI does this for their spatial database (SDE):
URL is here.

And most likely it was known even before...