Comment Re:No (Score 2, Funny) 138
You're a couple of posts behind on this stuff...
Comment Porn sites have a built-in defense mechanism (Score 1) 122
Porn sites have a built-in defense mechanism. It's hard to hack when your hands are busy.
Comment You are supposed to hold it with your pinky out! (Score 2, Funny) 427
It's just like drinking a latte.
Comment Are they jets or starships... (Score 1) 111
...and why do they need them?
Comment Re:XBMC on Ubuntu (Score 1) 304
XBMC is a great app, although the reason why you're finding it runs fine with your video card is that XBMC does not use any hardware acceleration. So you could have the best card in the world, and it wouldn't help performane.
That's not true. XBMC on linux supports hardware video decode via VDPAU ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU ). nVidia Geforce 8xxx and later chips are supported, as are a couple of S3 Chrome chips. Depending on the age of the chip not all video codecs are accelerated, but all the supported chips include at least some support for H.264 and VC-1. Geforce 210 and later even accelerate XviD and DivX. Currently neither ATI nor Intel include support for VDPAU in their linux drivers.
XBMC has also recently added hardware decode support to their Windows build. It uses DXVA2 on Vista and Windows 7, and there is experimental support on XP using DXVA.
Comment Re:Our formar SSID: (Score 1) 422
Bionicman. You can probably guess the password.
Was it "da da da da da da da da"?
Comment Re:Thats ok , as an XP user (Score 1) 454
I use Firefox 100% of the time and surf the 'net like a madman, and have no compatibility problems with any websites. That includes online banking, merchants, pr0n, news sites, etc. "IE-only" is really a thing of the past as far as publicly-accessible websites are concerned.
Comment Re:Alphine Stereo for sale (Score 1) 257
haha, I had a roommate in the 80's that once bought an "Alphine" car stereo. He went to some traveling electronics market and came home all excited with his purchase. "Alphine" was the first thing I noticed when I saw the box, and I think that put a slight damper on his day.
I also have a brother that bought a digital camera from some guy at an Arby's. It's the only digital camera I've seen that takes 35mm film!
Quake 3 For Android 137
An anonymous reader writes "Over the last two months I ported Quake 3 to Android as a hobby project. It only took a few days to get the game working. More time was spent on tweaking the game experience. Right now the game runs at 25fps on a Motorola Milestone/Droid. 'Normally when you compile C/C++ code using the Android NDK, the compiler targets a generic ARMv5 CPU which uses software floating-point. Without any optimizations and audio Quake 3 runs at 22fps. Since Quake 3 uses a lot of floating-point calculations, I tried a better C-compiler (GCC 4.4.0 from Android GIT) which supports modern CPUs and Neon SIMD instructions. Quake 3 optimized for Cortex-A8 with Neon is about 15% faster without audio and 35% with audio compared to the generic ARMv5 build. Most likely the performance improvement compared to the ARMv5 build is not that big because the system libraries of the Milestone have been compiled with FPU support, so sin/cos/log/.. take advantage of the FPU.''
Comment Re:Bah (Score 1) 282
Try the "oldbar" add-on for newer versions of Firefox. It makes the address bar function pretty much just like it used to before they introduced the Awesome Bar.
Comment Could ancient humans do the backstroke? (Score 1, Funny) 176
Maybe they were just very good swimmers?
Comment Re:I read the title as "High-Def Pornography"... (Score 1) 75
Q: How come there's no truly clever or truly witty humor on Slashdot?
A: Because shit like this keeps getting modded up.
O: Slashdot seems to have an open door policy for @$$#0l3$, though.
Comment I read the title as "High-Def Pornography"... (Score 4, Funny) 75
I think it's past my bedtime.
Comment A minor correction... (Score 1) 258
I posted that the newer WD Green drives use 500MB platters and I meant 500GB. 500MB platters would make for a very physically-large 1TB+ hard drive!
Comment This only effects the newer 1TB+ WD Green drives (Score 1) 258
It appears that this does not effect the older 1TB+ Western Digital Green drives such as the WDC10EADS. Those use 333GB platters and are native 512-byte sectors. The newer (newest) Western Green drives, like the WDC10EARS, use 500MB platters and have 4K sectors. One way to tell the drives apart with a quick glance is the old Green drives had 32MB of cache and the new ones have 64MB of cache.
