Comment Other players (Score 2) 734
Why not just download the VLC player? It's already much better than almost any alternative; I don't see why anyone would pay for Microsoft's crappy media center.
US Military Seeks Non-Cooperative Biometric Tracking Technology 98
An anonymous reader writes "Interesting article on the upcoming efforts of the Department of Defense biometric capabilities and the ability to non-cooperatively tag, track, and locate individuals from a variety of military UAV platforms. Quoting Wired: "[The] Army just handed out a half-dozen contracts to firms to find faces from above, track targets, and even spot 'adversarial intent.' 'If this works out, we'll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas', says Dr. Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. 'A guy can go under a bridge or inside a house. But when he comes out, we'll know it was the same guy that went in.'"
Comment Re:first post (Score 1) 30
way to waste a first post there
Comment Re:Or not (Score 1) 109
formally speaking, anything that a coputer does can be done by hand with pencil and paper
Comment Re:performance (Score 3, Interesting) 141
not really, microsoft research is pretty big and they publish basically everything. Google on the other hand keeps its research to itself.
Comment Re:What is an Internet? (Score 1) 456
Only someone with a tiny Internet would say that
Comment Re:Have to share this (Score 1) 626
Comment Re:The UI problems (Score 1) 104
am I the only one who always parses the name of that program as "dwarf the rapist"?
reminds me of arrested development
Comment Re:nice garage (Score 1) 77
looks like a puma to me
Submission + - Where Did Groupon's Billion Dollars Go? (allthingsd.com)
ailnlv writes: Apparently, Groupon is nothing but a pyramid scheme. In a few months the early investors managed to get more than $800 million of Groupon's money into their own pockets, while the company keeps bleeding cash.
Comment Re:Them swedes. (Score 1) 420
do you see the irony of requiring compensation on something that will not be ever used on a lifetime, and the same thing also being reproduceable/copiable faster than the original author can say 'copyright' ?
i don't know about that, some of those lawyers can say 'copyright' pretty damn fast
Comment Re:Not that surprising, actually (Score 1) 468
riskier does not mean harder, you've clearly never done either kernel hacking or graphics programming, so would you kindly do some research and stop talking out of your ass?
Comment Re:What comes next (Score 1) 124
that's what she said
Comment Re:Why piano when Bach required a 2-keyboard instm (Score 1) 106
you know that pianos have a sustain pedal for a reason, right? you can achieve that exact effect with a single piano
Comment Re:I'll be first to say WTF (Score 1) 700
you're probably just trolling, but this statement has been proven to be true over and over again. Your mistake is thinking that you have to stop at some finite point. If that is the case then yes, 0.9999 is less than 1, but the sequence of nines is infinite.
Think of it this way. Say there is a finite number of nines. In that case, you'd have that
1=0.9999...+e
where e is a finite quantity. The thing about e is that the more nines you add at the end, the smaller it gets. After some finite but incredibly big number of nines, e should be extremely close to 0, but still greater than 0. But the fact is that if you add an infinite number of nines (where infinite could be defined as a number greater than all natural numbers), e will be exactly 0. Therefore, 1=0.9999...+e=0.9999...+0=0.9999...
