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  1. Re:clearly on Better Brain Wiring Linked To Family Genes · · Score: 0

    And, that further begs the question if the Dr. is any bit of Scientology, as it seems more neurologist tend to walk in similar paths. The fact that the hand-down and auto-blame can be found, that seems like the delicate twist to the ping pong between brain/mind as one or as separate states. Depends if one thinks the brain can be fully mapped into 3D.

    Quantum physics, however, go beyond 3D, well into 6D and 12D, so I wouldn't doubt there are more of these kinds of reports that assert brain/mind as one and traceable in argument and predictions of what quantum physics can/will find.

    Key point is that they recognize genes as separate from the brain, which leads to possibilities that genes are part of the mind.

  2. Re:ISPs have been trying to scare people for years on EFF Advocates Leaving Wireless Routers Open · · Score: 0

    Star-topology ISPs are gonna FUD about anything they can to get everybody to avoid mesh-networks. The internet was meant for mesh/webs, not star-topologies.

  3. IKVM & Ruby... on VMware Releases Open Source Cloud Foundry · · Score: 0

    How many teams are there to port there platforms to .NET. I'd imagine IKVM & Ruby would start to get a head start. Given the other recent article about The Ceylon Project, is there any hope for cloudfactory?

  4. Re:SPDY clarifications on Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times In Half w/ SPDY · · Score: 0

    Because someone doesn't state all use-cases or in-use cases doesn't make them imaginary. Without much else said, the given connection difference of SSL can now be made stateful much easier over SPDY, where in HTTP they are generally stateless. The means to support more secure methods that rely on any fancy stateless scheme grows in cost and obscurity.

    I can spot use-cases/in-use-cases of like implementations in basically any ReSTful design, Second Life, Icesphere, Snowglobe, VWRAP, OpenSim, RealXtend, etc... not just web browsing.

  5. We use HTTP servers to pass assets... on Google Cuts Chrome Page Load Times In Half w/ SPDY · · Score: 0

    We use HTTP servers to pass assets in the virtual world protocols and this sounds like something we did (but expanded in the TCP layers) to combine bidirectional ReSTful connections. SPDY doesn't combine the content, yet everything else we had in mine appears done. This work was described in IETF WGs, so given NOTE WELL I hope we inspired this kind of work for wider deployment!

    The reverse connection to the client without an immediate request previously is key! SPDY obviously retains some credentials and that makes it a little more trivial behind firewalls.

  6. Re:The first thing could come up with? on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 0

    >So the article went straight from that wonderfully enlightened bill and went for creationism?

    Despite the author's need to stir up the attention?

    I think controversial is to let the scientist find out the origins of all the leather bound bibles. Let them map the DNA in each cover. No need to get into the Book of Origins until all the "DNA words" are mapped. Those are the word of GOD?

    Call it the book of DNA.

    When that is done, reconsider if they can rip out the Book of Judges; that one might not be needed anymore.

  7. Origins vs Origins on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 0

    One can compare fossils against genesis all they want, the common error here is they both give the possibility that some origin exists, yet neither prove it. The bill notes "chemical origins of life", so I think it is much more restrictive in that quote than open debate about origin vs origin. They actually have to use probable causes and not just possibilities from any imagination. Sometimes people got to stop at the leather bound cover of the bible and wonder about the origins of it's DNA rather than skip to the inner pages. "What species is that cover from?" "Does that species still exist?" "Is that leather bound bible made from human skin?" "If not human, can we still map the DNA of that species?" Real science!

    Given that those old leather bound bibles have been handed down for centuries... why do people miss the obvious?

  8. Re:It's not all about you. on The New Commodore 64 · · Score: 0

    Maybe you need to upgrade your keyboard tray? Mine would hold the new C-64 case and keep all the wires nicely tucked under my table instead of strung all over off the side to the tower.

  9. It's Big Pharna on Meth Dealer Faces Loss of His Comic Book Collection · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do note that big pharma deals out these drugs all the time, so it's a tug-o-war of who is legit to distribute meds. Many people have Rx for meth. They just don't have Rx for guns.

  10. Multiplex sin() on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 1

    With provided carrier waves instead of plain sin(), it always has been easier for split send receive. Simple split sin() is how UNIX micro-seconds work independently. Less hardware reads to the atomic timers meant faster methods for instructions per cycle. Same applies to ethernet.

  11. Re:Security is NOT an issue with The Cloud. on Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy · · Score: 1

    The Indian teams know well about cloud computing, especially with our more elaborate and fashionable rain dances. Tears in the rain, we hope they don't cause too many shortages in the metallic mainframes and die hard mobile batteries. DOD practically invented the vocab for cloud computing, and these documents have only fueled .net and .mil earlier than the birth in 1960s. History seems to repeat, and so do cloud covers with weather forecasts. The bees know well what are buzzkill, yet cloud-computing is almost comparable to a busy traffic crossroad without a stop signal... timing is perfect.

  12. Re:Coal on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 1

    To say fossil fuels are cheaper is to ignore the most expensive cost to return the environment to a carbon neutral state, yet we have been taught to ignore that cost for decades and made to point out people as stupid to mention the need for carbon neutral. Any scientist should be able to have a conscious thought that the conservation of energy doesn't magically restore all that crude oil pumped up from miles under the Earth back to its natural state.

    Those near the Gulf of Mexico surely would have a conscious thought about it, now... even for non-scientists there.

    The only real viable solution is to realize that cheap fuel doesn't mean the best solution.

  13. Re:Patenting the patents? on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    Let's apply this to two viewers watching TV, so then you would be suggesting that "widen the base" would then mean to make the couch wider and have both viewers sit back farther in order to sit farther apart and view the TV at the same angle.

    Is your account banned on ATS, too?

  14. Re:Patenting the patents? on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    Looks like Sony has taken there 3DTV display meant for a single viewer (without shutter glasses) and only widen the angle for use with two shutter glasses.

    Maybe they do have a patent on a patent if that wasn't so obvious. Maybe what makes it not so obvious is people tend to think you need glasses to watch any 3D displays except for Sony's technology, where you don't need glasses at all.

  15. Re:Patenting the patents? on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    When you take a triangle and widen its base you change the angle of the its top arc. Cause and effect being applied. This is naturally viewing from the player perspective be a few meters apart from each other.

  16. Patenting the patents? on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd imagine there are already stereoscopic patents for normal, single, left & right eye angles to create the 3D appearance. With what the article suggests, these angles have only been widened by a couple meters. Wouldn't this basically be the same patent at a different angle?

  17. Re:Can now embed into X11? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: 0

    Dyslexic typing is not trollish, and maybe you should be mindful of those of us with such disabilities.

    Notice that Slashdot has never added the "edit" feature to a comment, so that those of us with such disability can come back later and fix the comment. We just have to let live with trollish comments like yours when disabilities have taken over when we try to share the same abilities to post like you.

  18. Re:Can now embed into X11? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: 1, Interesting

    if Wine actually renders them itself and sends the resulting bitmaps to the X server, then this will certainly consume more bandwidth than if it just sends the text and font info and lets X render it.

    Mod parent very insightful.

    Some used to pre-render a larger bitmap full of commonly used letters. For example, a 2kx2k bitmap cut into squares for each letter. As letters are needed, an empty square is found and filled with the pre-rendered letter with all anti-aliasing and such applied. Then the program just tells X11 to copy and blend that square to the destination. The bitmap acts like a cache that doesn't have to constantly take up bandwidth to fully send.

    That has worked well except when you get into letters combination that shape differently due to different letters in the combination. For example, the tail of the y may extend further under some scripted letters than others. In others languages besides English, this occurs more often.

    The enable technology the article speaks about could help in this area if the X11 server was optimized to handle such bytecode interpretation internally. Then there is no need to fill the bitmap cache with every combination of shaped letters.

    What some of these anonymous cowards don't realize is the size of the cache needed to store all possible unicode characters combination with all shapes and styles applied, and then you should realize the cache method has become useless.

  19. Re:Can now embed into X11? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: 0

    The article talks about a patent expiration which would enable technology, just like the article mentioned how FreeType having code enabled from what was disabled because of that patent expiration. What is so hard to understand about that? That's all I'm saying besides a possible trend.

  20. Re:Can now embed into X11? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: 1

    How is not clear I'm talking about possible optimization and possible trends? Don't expect a complete posted dissertation with all technical details embedded into a Slashdot comment.

  21. Can now embed into X11? on FreeType Project Cheers TrueType Patent Expiration · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wondered how a 'bytecode interpreter" based on static arrays would work as embedded into X11. It seems with this patent expiration, it would allow progress to continue actual deployment of any previous experiments. If we used some code from Wine and add it to a X11 backend, then think how much this could benefit bandwidth wise. It wouldn't be an easy first step except for this bytecode interpreter. A more extreme viewport on X11 would be a fully embedded Cairo surface, yet by that time we probably find exactly what can stay in the X11 process and what needs to stay in apps that use such a richer X11 display.

    This isn't just an idea on a whim. There are already designs to add i7s right behind the pixel plane of monitors. With the 3D interconnect design of intel chips, you know what they are planning to do next (possible hint: Asetek prototype).

    [They probably wouldn't call it X11 anymore.. maybe DirectX11. Not.]

  22. Re:Digital, Indeed! on 3M Says Its Multi-Touch System Means Almost No Lag · · Score: 1

    Future of Real-Time Strategy table top games... but I don't think Twister has been ranked as RTS, yet...

  23. Re:This is an EVIL camera on iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Only if it doesn't have Android.

  24. Re:Inmates? on Outsourcing Unit To Be Set Up In Indian Jail · · Score: 1

    Not all inmates are criminals. Not all criminals are inmates.

  25. Durable Hardware on Outsourcing Unit To Be Set Up In Indian Jail · · Score: 1

    One thing overlooked above, being mainly about skills, is what the effect this will have on hardware. Prisons are known to have people who are upset about being in jail and surely the hardware needs to be durable enough to handle the risk of being handled very rough. There have been devices designed to project a screen onto any surface with smart optical devices to read touches against the image, so I'd imagine such a system boxed into protective transparent window to project and get feedback from any surface inside a cell could be a means to salvation for inmates. There isn't enough options in jail, as people probably think only bad criminals are in jail, which is not true when we include the mass amount of civil jurisdictions and those held merely due to court proceedings and both possibly have never done anything criminal. This could lead to more communication with inmates, which would lead to greater justice. If you ever witnessed how all inmates in the jail process get treated nearly the same, being criminal or non-criminal, I'm sure you agree that my use of "would" is not merely a made-up prediction. Durable hardware is needed in a cell that contains either criminal or non-criminal inmates. It's bad enough there is non-criminal inmates and a better system doesn't exist to give them swift and appropriate justice due to lack of technology and communication available inmates.