Comment I would limit and modify the merged ATT/T- Mobile (Score 1) 182
One of their limitations would be a pox on both their houses.
Comment I never lost a computer. (Score 1) 317
Some of them got misplaced after they became obsolete.
Comment I really hope 500M$ is enough to save U.S. economy (Score 1) 172
Because Google might decide that they have enough of governmental racket, and move out of USA.
Comment CTRL-F? what's that? (Score 1) 567
I never heard of it. I will use F3 now to find out about it.
Comment More then one correct answer? (Score 1) 572
I infrequently download pirated media or software. I also received letters from so called "copyright holders" asking me to stop.
Comment You paying for lot of stuff (Score 1) 727
5$ - parts
100$ - engineering
1095$ - litigation expenses.
100$ - engineering
1095$ - litigation expenses.
Code Review of Doom For the iPhone 161
Developer Fabien Sanglard has written a code review for id Software's iPhone port of Doom. It's an interesting look into how the original 1993 game (which he also reviewed to understand its rendering process) was adapted to a modern platform.
"Just like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom was rendering a screenframe pixel per pixel. The only way to do this on iPhone with an acceptable framerate would be to use CoreSurface/CoreSurface.h framework. But it is unfortunately restricted and using it would prevent distribution on the AppStore. The only solution is to use OpenGL, but this comes with a few challenges: Doom was faking 3D with a 2D map. OpenGL needs real 3D vertices. More than 3D vertices, OpenGL needs data to be sent as triangles (among other things because they are easy to rasterize). But Doom sectors were made of arbitrary forms. Doom 1993's perspective was also faked, it was actually closer to an orthogonal projection than a perspective projection. Doom was using VGA palette indexing to perform special effect (red for damage, silver for invulnerable...)."
Comment Where is the list? (Score 1) 168
How do i check if my name is on the list?
EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On 334
farrellj writes "According to Zeropaid, record company EMI has been notifying small music stores that they will no longer be able to buy EMI CDs from EMI, and will have to buy product from mega-chains like Walmart. Independent record store customers are some of the most loyal music buyers around. You are not going to find the back catalog, what used to be the staple of the music business, at your local Walmart. One wonders when the music business is going to run out of feet to shoot?"
Comment It will lower the crime fighting costs. Great math (Score 1) 154
A 239000$ dog will make seizure of 25$ hash stick from citizen cheaper and more effective.
Lets assume that police dogs live 10 years, and work every day.
If this dog can sniff on average 2.6 hash sticks more than regular dog in one day,he will cover his costs with hashish.
The only problem with this plan is that there is no way for a government to get economical or other benefits from confiscated drugs.
Comment American government won, mafia lost. (Score 0, Troll) 465
In "Who can steal more" competition.
I believe this time they "score" more $$$ than mafia in the famous airport robbery.
Comment Re:Takedown? (Score 1) 137
hold-on, so if I copyright my fart "noise", can I stop anyone else from farting the same peculiar notes? how long is a composition?
No one can't stop nobody from farting.
But if you can afford 500k$+ copyright lawyer, you can extort somebody who farted.
If you have millions - you can even jail them in some countries (USA,iran,russia. In sweden they will appeal).
Comment The usual place. (Score 1) 508
My mom's basement.
Comment Re:159357 popular with lefties? (Score 1) 299
Ever heard of youtube?
Comment Its a good downtime rate! (Score 1) 465
Apparently some devices won't work one day every 4 years.
It is less than 0.07% downtime.
I believe it is better than most of MS products.
It is less than 0.07% downtime.
I believe it is better than most of MS products.
