Comment Re:Limiting your market (Score 1) 399
I guess that explains RAGE then.
Comment Re:Burn in hell, Sveasoft / James Ewing (Score 1) 257
I think it's ironic that after everyone got pissed off at Sveasoft and flocked to DD-WRT, DD-WRT started pulling shenanigans with source code availability as well.
I only run and recommend Tomato (and variants) now, unless you are wanting to set up a non-WDS wireless bridge or repeater.
Comment Re:Tomato (Score 1) 257
TomatoUSB is a bit stale now too, but someone named Toastman is continuing to improve his own fork of it: http://tomatousb.org/forum/t-379538/new-toastman-builds
I like that it comes with some good out-of-the-box QoS settings, although they're perhaps a bit harsh for a small home LAN.
Submission + - Apple breaks app, forces dev to pay for support (google.com)
HunterZ writes: "It looks like Apple removed an audio decoding feature (AMR) from iOS 4.3 and silently broke at least one app. To make things worse, the developer had to pay Apple and wait a week to find out what happened, and even Apple had to replicate the issue before discovering what they had done."
Comment Re:Wikia (Score 1) 240
Sulu, right?
Not sure, let's check Wikipedia.
Oh, right.
Comment Re:That IS Cecil (Score 1) 142
Huh? That facebook/chillze picture clearly shows the characters from FF2j.
Comment Re:Same with audio... (Score 1) 521
What does "signal below" mean? My understanding (which may have eroded over time) was that a digital sample of an analog signal can only accurately encode signal frequencies up to half of the sampling rate. Thus, if you can hear frequencies above 22050Hz then you should be able to hear the difference between a 44.1kHz sampling and, say, a 48kHz sampling of a source sound with frequencies above 22.05kHz.
Comment Old news (Score 1) 352
WTF, this is old news! There's even a link to the month-old story in the "related stories" box below the summary. Why is Slashdot posting a freakout story that makes it sound like it just came out of nowhere all of a sudden?
Comment Screenshots... (Score 1) 293
Screenshots or it didn't happen!
Comment Screen scraping (Score 1) 849
Lots of people are knocking TFA's suggestion due to over-the-shoulder vulnerability, but with the proliferation of malware I'd be more worried about malicious software screen scraping an unmasked password.
Submission + - The Simpsons: Worth More on Hulu than Fox (pcworld.com)
N!NJA writes: A tectonic shift has taken place for the digital age: ad rates for popular shows like The Simpsons and CSI are higher online than they are on prime-time TV. If a company wants to run ads alongside an episode of The Simpsons on Hulu or TV.com it will cost the advertiser about $60 per thousand viewers, according to Bloomberg. On prime-time TV that same ad will cost somewhere between $20 and $40 per thousand viewers. Online viewers have to actively seek out the program they want to watch, so advertisers end up with a guaranteed audience for their commercial every time someone clicks play on Hulu or TV.com. Online programs also have an average of 37 seconds of commercials during an episode, while prime-time TV averages nine minutes of ads.
The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S 238
Harry writes "The unfortunate news about Apple rejecting a Commodore 64 emulator from the iPhone App Store inspired me to compare the C64 to the new iPhone 3G S, in more detail than any rational person is likely to compare them, ever again. If nothing else, it's a snapshot of just how far technology has come since the C64's release in August of 1982."
Comment Obligatory (Score 1) 392
I don't have a door at work, you insensitive clod!
(yay cubicles)
Comment Logistics failure (Score 1) 834
I ended up not getting into the show because by the time I heard about it (yeah, I don't watch much TV) Fox wasn't hosting the first few episodes on their web site any more. It's not worth trying to jump into the middle of a strong story arc driven show like that (which was the problem with Babylon 5 as well, which I didn't get around to watching until around 4-5 years ago).
Story arc series like this are doomed (despite often being much deeper) because they can never hope to gain significant ratings after leaving behind people who didn't start watching from the beginning.
A History of 3D Cards From Voodoo To GeForce 320
Ant sends us to Maximum PC for an account of the history and current state of 3D video cards (single print page). "Try to imagine where 3D gaming would be today if not for the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Without it, you wouldn't be [trudging] through the jungles of Crysis in all its visual splendor, nor would you be fending off endless hordes of fast-moving zombies at high resolutions. For that to happen, it takes a highly specialized chip designed for parallel processing to pull off the kinds of games you see today... Going forward, GPU makers will try to extend the reliance on videocards to also include physics processing, video encoding/decoding, and other tasks that [were] once handled by the CPU. It's pretty amazing when you think about how far graphics technology has come. To help you do that, we're going to take a look back at every major GPU release since the infancy of 3D graphics. Join us as we travel back in time and relive releases like 3dfx's Voodoo3 and S3's ViRGE lineup. This is one nostalgic ride you don't want to miss!"
