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  1. Re:How well does this work with faces? on Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera · · Score: 1

    Eyetronics (http://www.eyetronics.com/) has a similar technology (they flash different patterns, and compile the 3d image from that). It's the company that does the 3d scans for a lot of movies and games these days. I saw a live demonstration of that once, where people could just go sit in a picture booth, and have their face photographed to a 3d file. It works really fast, and the result is ok (as long as the system is synchronized up correctly).

    They also did a presentation where they did say that they were planning to roll out actual picture booths in popular locations, for allowing people to upload a 3d image of themselves on their online profiles.

  2. Re:Validate your data, guys! on reCAPTCHA Hard At Work, Rescuing Fading Texts · · Score: 1

    So, what's that first word here, anyways?
    http://dl.kaetemi.be/kaetemi/recaptcha.png

  3. Re:Good on Comcast, Cox Slow BitTorrent Traffic All Day · · Score: 1

    Just because some people use knives to kill people shouldn't mean that we have to now use forks to cut our meat. I'm pretty sure you can kill people with forks too.
  4. Re:ROTFLMAO LOL!!11!!One - Score 4, Insightful? on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 2, Informative

    HelLLLOOOO? I mean, it was funny - kudos and all that - but was modded Score 4, Insightful? Weird mods tonight on the Internets. There's recently been a trend of modding funny things as informative etc ;)
  5. Re:Um, didn't Gates quit? on Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    yep, he's responsible for putting back the chairs

  6. Re:This is not a troll: GIMP is hard for newbies on Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting
    If you actually read the license for most Adobe products, you'll find a nice piece of text that looks like this:

    2.4 Portable or Home Computer Use. Subject to the important restrictions set forth in Section 2.5 below, the primary user of the Computer on which the Software is installed ("Primary User") may install a second copy of the Software for his or her exclusive use on either a portable Computer or a Computer located at his or her home, provided that the Software on the portable or home Computer is not used at the same time as the Software on the primary Computer. ;)
  7. Re:Um, people... on Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users · · Score: 1

    It's available to a few thousand testers, partners, etc. Even through automatic updates. That's RTM-wave0, afaik.

  8. Re:That should show that you never on Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users · · Score: 1

    Vista SP1 RTM Wave0 has been available to past beta testers for more than a week now.

  9. Re:the REAL question ... on How Microsoft-Yahoo Will Affect Open Source · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's called Live Messenger, etc, these days.

    That would make it "Live Yahoo!" / "Yahoo! Live", or something...

  10. Re:Vista is #10? on Vista Makes CNET UK's List of "Worst Consumer Tech" · · Score: 1

    standard DVD playback is easy compared to using protected HD content I think your problem lies with the protected HD content, and not with Vista. You should try unprotected HD content instead.

    Most people haven't tried to play HD movies on their Vista Boxes, simply because they don't have a HD drive I'm not sure why you're connecting HD movies with HD drives.
  11. Re:Hard/weak references for event handlers on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 1

    Balancing out the extra cost of the managed system, by writing efficient code. ;)
    It's much better than just writing slightly slower code.

  12. Re:MS Paint on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1
  13. Re:MS Paint on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    In Vista you can now zoom out with Paint. :)
    Also, they moved the color palette to the top of the window, changed the colors on the color palette, and you can Undo more than 3 actions.

    Sadly, there are quite a few bugs in the Vista version of Paint, and it has even crashed a few times. For example, left clicking zooms in and right clicking zooms out. Now, draw a line, and left click to zoom in and right click to zoom out. If you accidently are still holding down the left button while clicking the right button, the drawing of the line is permanently undone and you'll have to draw it again.

  14. Re:Eclipse WTP 3.3 Europa seems to do this.. almos on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 1

    In Visual Studio (C#) you get:

    "Assignment in conditional expression is always constant; did you mean to use == instead of = ?"

  15. Re:I guess that creates an opportunity on Belgian ISP Forced To Block P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Or just do a whois on his domain name :P

  16. Re:I smell a new market on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 1

    There are MMORPGs (or at least 1 as far as I know) without anyone using leetspeak (and those who do, leave quite fast anyway), and where you simply can't use numbers or whatever other weird stuff in names...

  17. Re:idea on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 1

    Apparently it seems to be having some trouble with seeing the difference between "which" and "witch" ^^

  18. Re:MS Dev Tools on Piracy Economics · · Score: 1

    Dot-NET handles it all for you. Unless you create a project that is not .net ;)
    Which is possible in the Visual C++ Express edition (with some modifications, if I remember correctly).
  19. Re:Why stop there on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    Well, I think you can use it (since I gave you a copy). You just can't make a copy of it... ... Which basically means that you can't compile it or anything. :)

  20. Re:Why stop there on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    <ecode> is too.
  21. Re:Why stop there on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1
    Here you go, (it's in C#):

    static void DecryptHaiku(byte[] key)
    {
    // Put encrypted haiku in byte array.
    byte[] haiku = new byte[] { 0x47, 0x75, 0x30, 0x7F, 0x67, 0x7E, 0x30, 0x79, 0x7E, 0x64, 0x75, 0x77, 0x75, 0x62, 0x63, 0x3C, 0x1A, 0x43, 0x71, 0x69, 0x63, 0x30, 0x51, 0x51, 0x53, 0x43, 0x30, 0x5C, 0x51, 0x3E, 0x1A, 0x49, 0x7F, 0x65, 0x30, 0x73, 0x71, 0x7E, 0x30, 0x7F, 0x67, 0x7E, 0x30, 0x7F, 0x7E, 0x75, 0x30, 0x64, 0x7F, 0x7F, 0x3E };
    // Do some magic here.
    byte k = (byte)key.Length;
    // And use the secret formula.
    for (int i = 0; i < haiku.Length; i++) haiku[i] ^= k;
    // Display the result.
    Console.WriteLine(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(haiku)) ;
    }
  22. Re:Why stop there on Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer · · Score: 1

    Just use the bitlength of your 128 bit number ;)

  23. Re:Yes but does it run on XP On 8-MHz Pentium With 20 MB RAM · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it just works...

  24. Re:I'd say more than 35% on Spam Volume Jumps 35% In November · · Score: 1

    You say the spam in GMail gets deleted every 30 days, and indeed, that is what my GMail account is claiming to do also, but actually however.. My spam filter has also doubled (to 6000) the past month, and guess what... the oldest mail is from 23 October, which is 60 days ago, not 30... ^^ I think that would be one of the main reasons for the 'increase', at least for me.. :P

  25. Re:Windows' FS / the alternate universe story on Vista's Limited Symlinks · · Score: 2, Informative
    drive letters are just silly
    You don't really need to use them. In Windows you can perfectly access the volume where you installed it by simply using "\". You can also mount a volume to a folder, Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Computer Management > Disk Management > Right Click a Volume > Change Drive Letter and Paths > Add > Mount in "\blahblah" (make sure you first create the folder) > OK, and then you can just access that volume without using drive letters by doing "\blahblah" (at least, it seems to be working that way here, on vista), and you can also access these volume folder thingies from the network if it or it's parent's folder is shared. :)