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  1. Re:Any information at all? on Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream · · Score: 1

    Nope, it isn't slashdotted. That is because you could see that page well before the article reached slashdot. Apparently it showed up on some other high-profile website.

  2. Re:verifying assumptions on Fossil Rises From its Grave · · Score: 1
    It represents a rare opportunity to compare assumptions derived from the fossil record and an actual living specimen to determine overall accuracy of the techniques involved.

    I wonder how long the creatures will still be alive. Since most scientists want to know the ins and outs of a creature that they find interesting.

  3. Re:A day late and a dollar short? on Christmas Lights and Google Maps · · Score: 1

    I've seen that movie a milion times before through video.google.com, at least I can now see it synced properly,

  4. Re:Its cold here in hell on U.S. Announces Global Intellectual Property Plan · · Score: 1

    Hey, I don't live there. I just named it the first thing that came up. That it was RIAA must be meaning something.

  5. Re:Its cold here in hell on U.S. Announces Global Intellectual Property Plan · · Score: 1
    Another program, called the Global Intellectual Property Rights Academy, would train foreign judges, enforcement officials and other stakeholders in international intellectual property obligations and best practices.
    And who's ideals would that be, the RIAA's or the people's?
  6. Re:patch available on Patch & Workaround for Firefox Flaw Available · · Score: 1

    The only reason why IE is not affected by this, is that it doesn't even have support for IDN (Internationalized Domain Names). And if I'm remembering correctly, this workaround has also been advised for a IDN bug a while ago.

  7. Re:Eternal Darkness? on Nintendo Patents Insanity · · Score: 1

    Maybe it isn't that bad of an idea. It sounds like something that a lot of games can include, over time. Probably on a big game that Nintendo is devoloping, who knows.

  8. Google Image Search on Adult Site Sues Google, Google Compared To MS Again · · Score: 1

    NO! The query no longer works :(

  9. From the artikel on New Display Interface Standard in the Works · · Score: 3, Informative
    New DisplayPort Standard for PCs, Monitors, TV Displays and Projectors Moves from Promoter Group to Video Electronics Standards Association

    VESA to Finalize, Administer DisplayPort, Provide a Forum for Extensions

    MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 2005--The newly-developed DisplayPort(TM) interface proposal, which has been designed to simplify display interfaces in computer and consumer electronics systems, has been turned over to the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) for finalization and approval as a standard.

    In May, VESA announced the DisplayPort development program by a group of industry-leading companies dedicated to creating a new digital display interface specification for broad application within computer monitors, TV displays, projectors, PCs and other sources of image content.

    "The plan in May was to submit a comprehensive version of the interface proposal to VESA during the third quarter for ratification and adoption," said Ian Miller, chairman of VESA. "The group has met its internal timetable and delivered to us a very comprehensive specification, which VESA will now administer and provide a forum for future revisions."

    DisplayPort allows high quality audio to be available to the display device over the same cable as the video signal. It delivers true plug-and-play with robust interoperability, and is cost-competitive with existing digital display interconnects. Designed to be available throughout the industry as an open, extensible standard, DisplayPort is expected to accelerate adoption of protected digital outputs on PCs to support viewing high definition and other types of protected content through an optional content protection capability, while enabling higher levels of display performance.

    DisplayPort enables a common interface approach across both internal connections, such as interfaces within a PC or monitor, and external display connections, including interfaces between a PC and monitor or projector, between a PC and TV or between a device such as DVD player and TV display. The standard includes an optional digital audio capability so high definition digital audio and video can be streamed over the interface, and it provides performance scalability so the next generation of displays can feature higher color depths, refresh rates, and display resolutions. It also features a small, user-friendly connector optimized for use on thin profile notebooks in addition to allowing multiple connectors on a graphics card.

    Layered, Modular Architecture Includes Main Link and Auxiliary Channel

    DisplayPort incorporates a Main Link, a high-bandwidth, low-latency, unidirectional connection supporting isochronous stream transport. One stream video with associated audio is supported in Version.1.0, but DisplayPort is seamlessly extensible, enabling support of multiple video streams. Version 1.0 also includes an Auxiliary Channel to provide consistent-bandwidth, low-latency, bi-directional connectivity with Main Link management, and device control based on VESA's E-DDC, E-EDID, DDC/CI and MCCS standards. The Link configuration enables true "Plug-and-Play."

    The Main Link bandwidth enables data transfer at up to 10.8 Gbits/second using a total of four lanes.

    The promoter group based their development efforts on the premise that the PC industry requires a ubiquitous digital interface with optional content protection that can be deployed widely at minimum cost to enable broad access to premium content, according to Miller.

    As higher performance display and source technologies are introduced, the demands on interface bandwidth expand and the problem will become even more acute soon with demands for more colors, higher resolutions, and higher refresh rates. The DisplayPort standard's high initial bandwidth is designed to scale to even higher bandwidths to accommodate future display requirements.

  10. Re:porting on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mirrors can be found here and here .
    A FreeBSD port can also be found here, made by the guy who helped with the FreeBSD XBOX port.

  11. Re:Ha ! Bit late uh. on Quake 3: Arena Source GPL'ed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mirrors can be found here and here.
    A FreeBSD port can also be found here, made by the guy who helped with the FreeBSD XBOX port.

  12. Re:Accessibility helping FF replace IE? on IBM Donates Code to Firefox · · Score: 0

    Yes, there is a chance that FF will gain some users. But as the part of RIA it probably won't happen. That is because most websites/designers won't use it until IE has (bad) support for it. I might be totally wrong here, it's just an idea.

  13. Re:And for those of us with a current gentoo insta on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    $ rm /etc/make.profile && ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/ /etc/make.profile && env-update
    Run as root as usual, guessing that you are running x86.

  14. Re:I, for one, on Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment · · Score: 0

    Why not use your neighnours car when it sits there all night? Because it is called joyriding, see the link?

  15. Re:Two guys, ages 19 and 21 on FreeBSD Ported to XBox · · Score: 0

    I know them personally, and actually they got a job offered quite quickly after this article got posted. And FYI, he is working on the ethernet support, just a matter of time. Even direct booting from hdd is starting to take shape.

  16. Re:Everybody hurts on Can Cell Phones Damage Our Eyes? · · Score: 0

    Can Cell Phones Damage Our Eyes?
    If you throw them hard enough I guess they can.

  17. Re:So what does this say? on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1, Funny

    This kind of sounds like Seven of Nine. Resistance is futile...

  18. Re:We need more missions like this. on Deep Impact Comet-Smashing Video · · Score: 0

    If they are going to make it as interesting as that animation a lot of people are going to die. Of boredom.

  19. A girl tested it? on How to Build a Mainboard: ECS Production Tour · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you are saying that a GIRL has tested and touched my mobo? I am never going to get rid of this one.

  20. Yep, it's official: on Driver's-Seat Driving Game Controller · · Score: -1, Troll

    virgins for life.

  21. Re:Nothing really on Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic · · Score: 0

    No it doesn't, you can still change the settings.

  22. Re:I got your value on A Review of GCC 4.0 · · Score: 0

    Here in the Netherlands you only have to wait until it's 12, with the permission of the parents. And I don't think the devvers will have a problem with it.

  23. Re:I like the color-mixing aspect.. on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 0

    There are already some of those

  24. Re:Bought some today! on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: 0

    I don't think LED's are very usefull in homes. Because they only have one shade, and not a whole spectrum. Meaning that colors would even be much duller compared to TL-lights. It is probably going to cause a lot of people getting depressed because of the absence of colors in their lives.

  25. Re:Cooler rooms are great until... on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 0

    Ever heard of climate CONTROL