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Comment: Re:Was it justified (Score 1) 372

by giverson (#42120731) Attached to: Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team

You're actually more correct than you know. The term "scapegoat" actually came from "escape goat". It goes back to early English translations of the bible (Tyndale and KJV) and references the goat that is sent out of the camp during the Day of Atonement ceremony.

Feel free to look up the term scapegoat on Wikipedia.

Comment: Yup. (Score 1) 5

by giverson (#30820832) Attached to: Party Lines

Absolute agreement.

There is something to be said for the state legislature picking electors and senators, freeing them from the need to be in constant campaign/PR mode that they're in these days. The "public" is swayed so easily by the media and the opposition party that it makes it impossible for politicians to look beyond their next election. The end result is politicians passing bills to buy votes.

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Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 178

Posted by timothy
from the reformat-your-viewing-cave dept.
Barence writes "Nvidia has announced that 3D Blu-ray movies will begin appearing in 2010. A spokesman confirmed that the Blu-ray Association — to which Nvidia is a contributor — had settled on the 'proper parameters [for] what constitutes a 3D Blu-ray' and claimed the first 3D Blu-ray films would hit the shelves 'towards the end of Summer 2010.' Nvidia will support the standard through its 3D Vision technology, using bit rates of around 60Mbits/second — twice that of a standard movie — although HDMI 1.3 'should have sufficient bandwidth' to ensure smooth playback. New files will be encoded using the MVC-AVC format, which is based on the AVC format currently used by Blu-ray movies.' Update: HotHardware has some additional details, including images of demo hardware.

Comment: Re:Wow... (Score 1) 629

by giverson (#27312167) Attached to: Mississippi Passes Law To Ban Traffic Light Cameras

In most (all?) states the camera has to show that the light was red before you entered the intersection. Two pictures are taken - one of you outside the intersection with a red light and one of you in the intersection with the red light.

Oh, and the citations in Maryland include your speed. Can't speak for any other states.

Comment: Re:AMD price : performance linear (Score 5, Insightful) 214

by giverson (#27268757) Attached to: Phenom IIs, Core I7-920 Win Out In Value Analysis

It's because Intel dominates the high end. AMD can't sell a processor with a premium pricetag because its performance would compete with Intel's midrange which is priced pretty reasonably.

AMD is the loveable underdog, but don't forget how expensive their X2s were when they were dominant. AMD isn't cheap because they're doing us a favor, they're cheap because they have to be.

Comment: Re:How can anyone be against net neutrality (Score 1) 409

by giverson (#27064357) Attached to: Obama Picks Net Neutrality Backer As FCC Chief

Poorly written net neutrality legislation could cause problems and reduce service quality.

For example, Akamai could work out a deal so that Comcast could cache Akamai's most popular content close to the end user. This requires less internet bandwidth and so Comcast could deliver the content to their users at a faster rate (a higher tier).

Poorly written net neutrality legislation could stop this from happening.

This is why there is some push back on net neutrality. If the legislation is screwed up, QoS and local caching that benefits the end user could end up inadvertently outlawed.

Comment: Re:the computer is not just the cpu (Score 1) 115

by giverson (#26134283) Attached to: Intel Quad-Core Price and Performance Showdown

Actually, I had to look that up recently. It's not 3GB, it's 4GB. Here comes the science:

RAM starts from address 0. The BIOS allocates RAM from 0 up to the bottom of the PCI memory addresses mentioned above, typically limiting available RAM to between 3 GB and 3.4 GB."

I actually learned something last week, thought I'd pass it on...
*Cue the "The More You Know" logo*

Looks like you ended up arguing his point. 32-bit Vista/XP are limited to a little over 3GB. How much over 3GB is determined by your hardware.

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