Comment Re:Announcement that is almost like (Score 1) 124
Mod parent up! +1 Funny. No mod points left!
Comment Re:MF Ratio (Score 1) 94
My sister is a lecturer (professor) in composite materials in Australia. Yes, they do!
Comment And in other news... (Score 5, Interesting) 164
Google announces a new initiative: Google Document Format, for all your document sharing needs.
Comment Retracted: News story (Score 1) 205
Click on the link in the story. It's been retracted. Nothing to see here, please move along.
Comment Re:This is bullshit (Score 1) 98
Vote parent up! The AC is right: voting IS mandatory in Australia, unless you are resident overseas.
Comment Re:Nerd Vs Geek (Score 1) 320
Summed up in this Venn Diagram:
http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/9/6/7/nerd-venn-diagram-9420-1252236207-2.jpg
USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s 163
digitaldc writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra:
"The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department. The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell."
Comment Re:2004 (Score 1) 304
Before we get a million "Adobe does this!" comments RTFA: "Microsoft applied for the patent titled "Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit" in October 2004"
Far as I know no one was doing this in 2004
Still not enough information. Patent claims can change between the original filing and the version that gets granted by amending the patent application. It's done by trolls...
The practice of submarine patents was ended a few years ago, at least in the US. Check out Submarine patents on Wikipedia . The most famous of these were the machine vision Lemelson patents, which were thrown out in 2005.
Comment Re:Maybe you should ask the right question: (Score 1) 293
Let me correct that for you:
Claim 1. A device, comprising:
a first display region;
a second display region;
a subsystem operatively coupled to the first display region and the second display region; and
a data-holding subsystem to:
display a back side of a first page on the first display region and a front side of a second page on the second display region;
recognize a page-turning gesture directed to an outer corner of the second page;
display, responsive to the page-turning gesture, a page turn that actively follows the page-turning gesture, the page turn curling a lifted portion of the second page to progressively reveal a back side of the second page while progressively revealing a front side of a third page and while progressively covering the back side of the first page; recognize a page-flipping gesture directed along an outer edge of the second touch region; and
display, responsive to advancement of the page-flipping gesture, a page flip in which pages quickly flip from the second display region to the first display region.
Sounds like a book with pages to me!
Claim 1. A device, comprising:
a first display region;
a second display region;
a subsystem operatively coupled to the first display region and the second display region; and
a data-holding subsystem to:
display a back side of a first page on the first display region and a front side of a second page on the second display region;
recognize a page-turning gesture directed to an outer corner of the second page;
display, responsive to the page-turning gesture, a page turn that actively follows the page-turning gesture, the page turn curling a lifted portion of the second page to progressively reveal a back side of the second page while progressively revealing a front side of a third page and while progressively covering the back side of the first page; recognize a page-flipping gesture directed along an outer edge of the second touch region; and
display, responsive to advancement of the page-flipping gesture, a page flip in which pages quickly flip from the second display region to the first display region.
Sounds like a book with pages to me!
Comment NUnit, FitNesse (Score 1) 426
1. For unit tests, you can't go past NUnit or CPPUnit and the like.
2. For scripted stuff, I highly recommend FitNesse. It's a wiki-based scripting language that allows "fixtures" to be written to tie into your code.
Comment CMYK for TV? (Score 1) 511
Printers use the subtractive color model: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK.
It seems that, because TVs use an additive color mechanism, that the missing option from Red, Green, Blue is White.
But then perhaps those people complaining about "lack of black" in the images have something to complain about.
Comment Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse (Score 1) 818
Comment Re:Only if the program copies itself into the outp (Score 1) 173
Hmmm. IANAL, but I reckon running the program counts as "digital performance" of the work and, as such, clause 4.b. kicks in:
"to the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work"
it might not quite get to "cite our paper", but it's pretty close.
Submission + - Benford's Law (dsprelated.com)
kootsoop writes: "Steve Smith over at DSPRelated has a neat article about a strange property of numbers: Benford's Law. This law says that, contrary to our intuition, the leading digit [1-9] of any given number is not uniformly distributed (i.e. the likelihood of a "1" as the leading digit is not 1/9 th; it's more likely to be 30.1%)."
Submission + - Inventor of the TV remote dies
QuietLagoon writes: Zenith Electronics Corporation said today that Engineer Robert Adler, who co-invented the TV remote control with fellow Engineer Eugene Polley, has passed on to the big sofa in the sky. In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Adler and co-inventor Polley, another Zenith engineer, an Emmy in 1997 for the landmark invention.
