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Comment Goodbye video if this takes off (Score 2, Interesting) 143

As someone that is extremely left-eye dominant, 3d does not work for me. Period. I always wondered what the big deal about ViewMasters were when I was a kid, not realizing the things should be 3d (I saw them as two images of the same thing, well, one adjusted for the 3d effect everyone else was getting). If TV, movies and everything else starts following this the way everyone followed HD to screens that weren't compatible with my eyes either (any motion makes me sick, as I see horrible tearing and delays with LCD and plasma displays, even ones that are apparently the highest quality), I'm going to have to give up watching anything new.

Comment Re:"DirectX 11" Hardware? (Score -1, Troll) 103

Oh wow. Oh, fucking wow.

Not only did someone get so defensive about this as to MOD DOWN AN AC DOWN TO -1, but have flooded this discussion with replies that only show how corrupted people have gotten from Microsoft's way of doing things.

Let me tell you kids how things work in the real world, instead of Microsoft's imaginary fantasy land come to life:

Video cards are made that can do X and Y and Z. THEN -- as in AFTER THE CARDS ARE MADE -- APIs are created that give programmers the ability to access the video card's ability to do X and Y and Z.

The concept that it works the other way around -- that Microsoft creates an API that says "we want programmers to be able to do X and Y and Z" then TELLS VIDEO CARD MAKERS -- THE COMPANIES THAT CREATE THE VERY HARDWARE AND LOW-LEVEL THINGS THAT ENABLE GRAPHICS TO EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE -- to create cards that implement X and Y and Z -- is completely backwards and proof that we have really stopped understanding how things are supposed to function.

Here's a hint -- look up what API actually MEANS before spouting your Microsoft-centric garbage. I wouldn't be surprised if you were all Microsoft-paid trolls and marketers that are placing your twisted spin on things and making people continue to believe in your garbage. I know Microsoft hires people for this reason -- I've had people inside Microsoft admit to me that they do.

So either you're a bunch of paid trolls, or have been brainwashed by them to believe things that are completely backwards from the way things are supposed to be.

No wonder gaming these days is a horrible mess.

Comment How about yellow? (Score 2, Informative) 324

Now can we really make M&Ms (and tons of other foods) better by getting rid of the awful yellow dye garbage (tartrazine)? It's been shown to affect tons of people negatively and some even link it to childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder and hyperactivity.

Seriously, we can do without yellow foods or find something much safer, can't we? Why do we continue to put use this as a food dye when there are so many issues with it?

It's a real pain in the ass to analyze ingredient lists of every single thing I buy to make sure it doesn't have that in it, and it's in very non-obvious things as well (things that don't even look that yellow). Plus they don't draw attention to it like other food allergies, it's just hidden near the bottom of ingredient lists. And I'm sure I've accidentally had it at restaurants causing me to feel like crap and get headaches and feel sick afterwards.

Ban tartrazine.

Movies

Submission + - LoTR lawsuit threatens Hobbit production (bloomberg.com)

eyrieowl writes: J.R.R.'s heirs are suing for royalties on the LoTR films. Apparently they haven't gotten any money due to some creative accounting. Peter Jackson ought to understand...he had to sue the studio for much the same reason.

As for The Hobbit? FTFA: "Tolkien's family and a British charity they head, the Tolkien Trust, seek more than $220 million in compensation...[and]...the option to terminate further rights to the author's work".

As much as people want to see The Hobbit, I hope the Tolkien's get everything they are owed and more.

Microsoft

Submission + - Office 2010 to Work Natively on Linux, Sort Of (gadgetell.com) 1

superslacker87 writes: "Yes, that's right, Office 2010 will work on natively on Linux, the web apps anyway. It is reportedly going to be compatible with Safari, Firefox, and of course, Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is not mentioned, probably due to the current war between the two.

From the Article:

Your cheap little Linux netbook just got a boost in credibility, or will get a boost when Microsoft drops the web app version of Office 2010 next year. To date, Linux netbooks or anything else running the OS had to rely on non-Microsoft programs to read, edit and save in the familiar .doc, .ppt and .xls file formats. What is MS thinking? .... "Linux just gained some street cred."

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The Internet

Submission + - Al Franken Questions Sotomayor on Net Neutrality (latimes.com)

Bryan Gividen writes: As was reported this morning by Minnesota Public Radio, Senator Al Franken intended to question Supreme Sonya Sotomayor on the subject of net neutrality. Franken said, "I just want to make sure the Internet remains the Internet and that Internet service providers aren't being, in a sense, a gateway to the Internet and slowing down certain content and speeding up certain content." During the hearings, Franken specifically questioned Sotomayor about the Brand X decision and whether or not internet access was "compelling, over-riding 1st Amendment right." The LA Times has a brief blog post with the essence of Sotomayor's response: "Rights are not looked at by the courts as 'overriding.' Rights are rights and what the court looks at is how Congress balances those rights in a particular situation and then judges whether that balance is within constitutional boundaries."

Comment Re:XHTML merged (Score 2, Interesting) 222

Exactly. XHTML is not that hard to get right, and it makes a web page "clean" in that there doesn't have to be any guessing going on in the browser to figure out what a page designer wants.

The best thing in the world would have been browsers adapting a rigid HTML standard to begin with and browsers simply saying "Sorry, this page has invalid HTML" on bad pages.

I can dream, can't I?

Comment Thanks a lot (Score 1) 631

As someone that is allergic and/or hypersensitive to everything except Tylenol, I guess I'm screwed if I need one of those types of drugs then, huh?

Wonder how long it will take them to ban Tylenol itself.

Thanks a lot for treating me like an idiot.

These FDA morons are going to get a letter from me. Not that it'll do any good, since modern government doesn't listen to the people anymore. Not really.

Comment Re:This suddenly explains a lot (Score 1, Informative) 408

You have no right to complain about it opening its home page if you know how to disable it. It's beneficial because it describes any changes, like THE VERY ONE BEING COMPLAINED ABOUT IN THIS ARTICLE.

"Barely use" noscript? You "use" it every single time you go to a page, unless you're dumb enough to use it as a script blacklister instead of whitelisting as you should.

I've said it many times in the past, and I'll continue to say it: people that complain about NoScript don't understand how it works.

Yes, I'm a rabid NoScript fan and will defend this awesome piece of software to my death if need be.

Comment Re:Anything like 2k3? (Score 1) 386

The people that modded me down and responded negatively have apparently never been exposed to a sensible server operating system. Locking a system down that tight is just ridiculous. Use your brains for a minute -- what is the only reason an OS has to be locked down absolutely that tight on boot? Because it's so insecure that any leaks can infect it before the admins have a chance to properly patch and secure it.

I know there are people paid by Microsoft to troll, mod down and post ridiculous responses to anything anti-Microsoft and/or pro-*nix (really -- I was told this by a Microsoft insider when the company I used to work for was doing some work with them), but it has really stepped up lately. One has to wonder the amount of sheer panic Microsoft has right now, and how good that looks for other OSes.

Comment Anything like 2k3? (Score -1, Troll) 386

I've never tried 2k8. Does it come with the horrible lockdown of every single thing on the machine when you first bring the system up like 2k3 did, meaning you can't even browse outside of Microsoft's site to get other necessary server bits/programs/etc without doing some obscure fix to open that up (I never could get IE to allow me to go anywhere besides Microsoft unless I did that!)?

That made me laugh -- apparently even Microsoft knows the security on its product is so bad that they have to ship it locked completely down. If they can't even trust their product, why should I?

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