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Comment Re:That's pretty standard (Score 2, Informative) 303

You didn't know what you were looking for, we did.
we found it for you, you WILL find that what we gave you is what you were looking for.
If you have a problem with this, we will kill you.
(or failing that, come close enough for a copyright suit... how about a copyright vest? trousers?... what about a copyright shirt and tie?)

Comment FINALLY! (Score 3, Interesting) 106

This is what should have happened in the first place.
I have an Intel m-ITX board with the 330, it's nice... I wish it had a PCI-E/16 instead of regular PCI,,,
Could only find an ATI 2400/PCI for it, now that they're out, I might rebuild with a Nvidia 95(6?)00 because ubuntu won't install (complains about memory corruption errors. The. memory. is. OK.).

Intel's graphics are so bad they're criminal.
And please... stop making 230's and just make 330's.

I just hope it's not too expensive,
With a separate power brick made-to-go with this board,,,
A few stand-offs and you can have a nice low-power-draw render cluster.
It'd be even nicer if blender, yafaray, or lux had a branch that took advantage of CUDA as well.

Censorship

Submission + - Warner Music Forces Lessig Presentation Offline

An anonymous reader writes: Larry Lessig, known (hopefully) to everyone around here as a defender of all things having to do with consumer rights and fair use rights when it comes to copyright, is now on the receiving end of a DMCA takedown notice from Warner Music, who apparently claimed that one of Lessig's famous presentations violated on their copyright. Lessig has said that he's absolutely planning on fighting this, and has asked someone to send Warner Music a copy of US copyright law that deals with "fair use."
Graphics

Submission + - Caustic Ray Tracing Accelerator Detailed (pcper.com)

Vigile writes: Caustic Graphics is a start-up founded by three former Apple employees promising real-time ray tracing with the help of add-in accelerator cards and OpenGL-based software stacks. The first iteration of this design is the CausticOne using two FPGAs tuned to vector-based calculations and is responsible solely for the ray tracing portion of the rendering engine. Caustic's design leaves the shading computations to a standard GPU but presents the work in a way that is much more efficient than other GPU-based ray tracing algorithms. PC Perspective has an article that looks at the technology behind the hardware and software of the ray tracing accelerator and the means by which Caustic Graphics intends to stay in business while competing with companies like NVIDIA and Intel.

Comment Snrk... (Score 5, Funny) 1870

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8003799.stm

Laughed hard at this:
"Speaking to the BBC, the chairman of industry body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) John Kennedy said the verdict sent out a clear message.
"These guys weren't making a principled stand, they were out to line their own pockets."

Oh yeah, and he isn't?

Comment So.... (Score 1) 103

How long until it's in hobbyist hands?

I want one of these: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Marauder

Failing that, how about http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Turkina or http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Dire_Wolf_(Daishi)
But a http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Locust or http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Kit_Fox_(Uller) would be fun too.

Any way, new toys for robotics are always fun.

Comment Re:Advertising (Score 1) 234

I remember a while after Daikatana came out, we got a bunch of copies for prizes at our lan party.
Usually gave them out as the boobie prize.
A couple copies we took out back, put m-80's in the box, through the hole in the CD, doused with gas... it was tons of pyro fun.

Comment 88 hours (Score 2, Interesting) 605

Stayed up for 88 hours during Origins '99

Didn't pound down tons of soda or coffee,
maybe a few cans of diet dew, but I did eat normally.
(That's important, There was one guy at the last gen con in Milwaukee who stayed up the entire con, only on caffeine and energy drinks, collapsed right outside the front door of the con, right after it ended.)

By the end of that period, it felt like my body heat had shut off (felt like I was freezing, and was shivering hard), and I felt like I was piloting myself, like a mech, more than BEING myself.
Oddly enough, I was there just to play battletech.

Mainly stayed up because I didn't have a place to stay, when I got a room for the night friday, I sat down on the couch, and the next thing I knew it was morning.
Then was up for about another 48 for the end of the con and the bus ride back.

I haven't tried anything like that EVER again.

Books

Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal 683

Mike writes "The Author's Guild claims that the new Kindle's text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that 'They don't have the right to read a book out loud,' said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. 'That's an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.' Forget for a moment that text-to-speech doesn't copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person's nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild's claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance."

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