maudefan - Slashdot User

Comment Re:S3TC patent (Score 2) 81

by maudefan on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:59AM (#38133880) Attached to: ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents

This probably makes the texture compression patent (S3TC) invalid. Now it can be safely implemented in Mesa.

Not unlikely. Although there does not seem to be any legal ruling that mandates this, this claim is mentioned here and on Wikipedia.

Comment Re:Like ITC will find in favor of a Taiwanese comp (Score 5, Informative) 81

by maudefan on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:50AM (#38133834) Attached to: ITC Rules Apple Does Not Infringe S3 Graphics Patents

When did that happen for the last time in known history? ITC has one purpose only -- to protect US companies from competition.

It will come back to bite them eventually. Other companies are doing the same like getting apple banned in Taiwan. By setting up this framework of protectionism now they will suffer when being banned in China becomes worse for multinationals than being banned in the USA

The article you are linking to actually talks about banning APPLES (the fruit) imported from the US in Taiwan. You probably wanted to refer to the ban of selling some Apple products in South Korea, which is seeked by Samsung. This ban, however, did not happen so far it seems.

Submission + - Expert: 720p vs 1080p

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cookiehead

on Friday February 23, 2007 @11:36AM

cookiehead writes: "Is 1080p resolution better than 720p? Industry expert Greg Nicoloso examines the formats."

Comment Re:summary misses an important bit... (Score 1) 499

by maudefan on Friday June 09, 2006 @08:19AM (#15501219) Attached to: Capacitors to Replace Batteries?

the article says they would only need a few seconds to be fully charged...
...and will require massive transformers to perform it.

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