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Comment Re:Parenting (Score 2, Informative) 342

by purplepolecat (#34104156) Attached to: Supreme Court Hears Violent Video Game Case Tomorrow

Yes, that is the thing, governments should stay out of morality, its best for everyone.

So, you are saying that murder should not be illegal? Theft? All laws are about morals, it is just a question of which morals are important enough to be enforced by law.

No, laws are about protecting people's rights. If someone is murdered or stolen from, their rights have clearly been violated. If a minor murders an imaginary person in a game, or sees a nipple on TV, no rights have been violated.

Comment Re:OTOH, there's jury duty... (Score 1) 654

by purplepolecat (#33580418) Attached to: Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen

Personally, I'm not sure the whole 'WooHoo, I can now vote in the US' is worth it - which seems to be the only other *practical* difference between a GC-holder, and a citizen.

Green card holders can be deported for committing a felony. Citizens can only be deported if you can prove that they obtained their citizenship fraudulently.

Comment Re:so apple does not like blind people? (Score 2, Funny) 187

by purplepolecat (#33347646) Attached to: Authors Guild Silent Over iBooks Text-To-Speech

So who thinks a _touchscreen_ is a decent choice for someone visually impaired? Something that relies on hand eye coordination, with no physical feedback?

I know I'm probably going to be proved wrong in a minute by the blind iPad fanbois.

lkdsrkjhskg! kflijaf fkjhskjh apple aj nnd kjhkdjsfg, rjj ok !

Comment Re:Fun read. (Score 1) 320

by purplepolecat (#33315766) Attached to: 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail

I especially like the point about the sheer number of armed individuals. Makes me think the only semi-viable zombie outbreak scenario is something like Highschool of The Dead, where an outbreak occurs in urban Japan.

Japan would be safest of all. Why ? One word.

KATANAS.

(Everyone still has one of these, right ? I know anime wouldn't lie to me.)

Comment Re:Lots of evidence for higher frame rates (Score 1) 521

by purplepolecat (#30676866) Attached to: Framerates Matter

On TV you can see the difference between shows that have been shot on film (at 24 Hz) versus on video (at 30 or 60 Hz). Video seems clearer, less movie like.

This is more likely because when you show a 24fps movie on 29.97fps TV, it has to go through a framerate conversion process called Telecine, which (grossly oversimplified explanation) breaks each frame up into 2 fields (odd & even numbered lines), repeats every 1 in 4 fields, and plays the result out at 59.94 fields per second. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:3_pulldown for detailed explanation)

The result is that any moving objects look jerky, especially for smooth horizontal movement, because one of the fields will appear to stand still every 1/12 second. It's a product of the framerate conversion process, not because the source material has 20% lower framerate.

Comment Paging Dr House (Score 1) 224

by purplepolecat (#27001439) Attached to: New Medical Disorder Linked To Gaming
"Doctors who examined her at the Geneva University Hospital concluded she had a condition known as 'idiopathic eccrine hidradenitis'"
"Idiopathic", meaning "you're an idiot for still letting your daughter play video games after she develops sores on her sweaty little hands."

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