Comment: Stupid filter (Score 1) 410
The project is mature enough - time to start using it http://stupidfilter.org/
Comment: Re:Patent will be invalid - It's been done before (Score 1) 104
It's not that bad. ImgSeek author has been informed of the patent application filled and there's always http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
Comment: Re:Patent will be invalid - It's been done before (Score 1) 104
I did in fact read the claims in patent application and a lot of them look like the wavelet based method used by imgSeek. I seriously doubt much will be left off this patent in result.
Comment: Patent will be invalid - It's been done before (Score 4, Informative) 104
Patent is invalid if there is prior art. Well, imgSeek has had that function since at least 2008 (can't find changelog for desktop version - it might have been there already in 2006).
Comment: Re:EC2? (Score 2) 225
half price: http://www.maxcdn.com/pricing/
Comment: Work and fun (Score 5, Informative) 1880
Adobe software and games - that's about it.
Sadly Gimp is no replacement for Photoshop at this point.
Comment: I want one! (Score 1) 366
Now I have motivation to stop spending my time on
Comment: Re:The EULA said that? (Score 1) 273
"This provision applies to all consumers to the fullest extent allowable by law, but expressly excludes residents of Quebec, Russia, Switzerland and the Member States of the European Union."
Doesn't apply.
Global Warming To Hinder Wi-Fi Signals, Claims UK Gov't 280
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from the stock-up-on-tinfoil dept.
radioweather writes with news of a government report from the UK's Dept. for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which warns of global warming's harmful effect on Wi-Fi and other communication protocols. Quoting the Guardian:
"Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables. The threat posed by climate change to internet and telephone access is a rare example of when the developed world would be hit harder than developing countries, which are in general more at risk from increased floods, droughts and rising sea levels. 'If climate change threatens the quality of your signal, or you can't get it because of extreme fluctuations in temperature, then you will be disadvantaged, which is why we must address the question,' said Spelman, 'and just imagine in the height of an emergency if the communications system is down or adversely affected.'"
Comment: Re:Microsoft 4000 - quality an issue (Score 1) 310
I've had this keyboard. In fact I had two in 6 months time and both broke down.
An no, I don't abuse keyboards - my previous ergonomic keyboard (made by Chicony) lasted 8 years and the only reason I stopped using it was the fact I didn't want to have DIN5->MiniDin6 and MiniDin6->USB adapters at the same time
As far as the 4000's ergonomy goes I liked it.