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Submission + - libTISCH 1.0: multitouch development framework (sourceforge.net)

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dr.matrix

on Saturday October 31, 2009 @06:19AM

dr.matrix writes: "Shameless plug of my new library for multitouch developers: libTISCH Release 1.0 "October Snow" is out! libTISCH is a multitouch development framework with ready-made graphical widgets, highly configurable gesture recognizer and many other features. For details, see http://tisch.sourceforge.net/ ."

Submission + - Drug adviser sacked for cannabis claim (guardian.co.uk) 2

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thespeech

on Saturday October 31, 2009 @03:15AM

thespeech writes: "The British Government's chief drug adviser, Professor David Nutt from the University of Bristol, has been sacked a day after claiming that cannabis, LSD, and ecstasy were less dangerous than alcohol. "Alcohol ranks as the fifth most harmful drug after heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and methadone. Tobacco is ranked ninth," he wrote in the paper from the centre for crime and justice studies at King's College, London, published yesterday. "Cannabis, LSD and ecstasy, while harmful, are ranked lower at 11, 14 and 18 respectively." Nutt said he was not prepared to "mislead" the public about the effects of drugs in order to convey a moral "message" on the government's behalf, and that "if scientists are not allowed to engage in the debate at this interface then you devalue their contribution to policy making and undermine a major source of carefully considered and evidence-based advice."
This is not the first time that the British government has ignored advice from experts in making drug policy decisions.
Some are worried that this will discourage others from giving their opinions in a field where, apparently, honest scientists are to be seen and not heard."

Comment Not to rain on their parade.. (Score 1) 148

by dr.matrix on Saturday October 10, 2009 @04:58PM (#29706045) Attached to: Computer-Aided ESP Transmits Binary Numbers, Slowly

..but from the way I understand TFA, the receiving person isn't even aware of the value of the received bit, it's only picked up subconsciously.

Submission + - Displaylink support for Linux followup (butterbrot.org)

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dr.matrix

on Saturday May 16, 2009 @06:01PM

dr.matrix writes: "I'd like to add something to that story about the DisplayLink library for Linux. This library doesn't include compression, contains deliberately obfuscated parts and doesn't really provide anything which we hadn't already reverse-engineered in January.. so IMHO it's not really a fine example of Linux support (at least not yet)."

Comment Nearly useless.. (Score 5, Informative) 61

by dr.matrix on Saturday May 16, 2009 @05:54PM (#27981919) Attached to: DisplayLink Releases LGPL USB Graphics Code

..for several reasons:
- they left out the compression
- they have deliberately obfuscated the init sequences (haha, big deal, see below)
- and they didn't put in anything beyond the stuff which we already
reverse-engineered in January (see http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/ ).

Floe

Submission + - Multitouch development made easy (easier) (sourceforge.net)

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dr.matrix

on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @01:37PM

dr.matrix writes: "Do you happen to have a multitouch interface lying around? One of the big ones? Yes, of course you do. If you are into writing applications for that sort of thing, you might want to check out the second beta release of libTISCH, a multitouch development library with focus on applications. Head over to http://tisch.sourceforge.net/ and grab the source. Works under Linux, Windows and Mac. Yes, an iPhone port is in the works. No, it won't blend.
P.S. If you don't have a big multitouch table: it also has a mouse-based emulation mode."

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