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Comment Focus (Score 1) 152

by pterry on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @02:54AM (#28778879) Attached to: Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery

Never mind Star Trek, this reminds me of the Emergents' "Focus" mental enslavement technology from Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky. From wikipedia:

An active MRI-type device triggers changes [...] manipulating the brain in this way, Emergent managers induce obsession with a single idea or specialty, which they call Focus, essentially turning them into brilliant [information] appliances.

Comment bug? (Score 1) 363

by pterry on Saturday March 07, 2009 @12:20AM (#27102035) Attached to: 9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features

24 hours (or even 24 seconds!) to render 20k of HTML should be considered a bug. Did you submit it to bugzilla? Does it still take a long time on a current version of Firefox?

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