Comment It's a Trap (Score 1) 262
`Paid' and `Free' subject to future profitable redefinition.
MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264 262
vistapwns writes "MPEG LA has announced that free h264 content (vs. paid h264 content which will still have royalties) will be royalty free forever. With ubiquitous h264 support on mobile devices, personal computers and all other types of media devices, this assures that h264 will remain the de facto standard for video playback for the foreseeable future."
Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 327
If the man wants to tilt at windmills, I say let him.
Comment Re:Fine (Score 1) 204
I bet $1 Billion you didn't RTFA.
This is idle, GP didn't read the summary, probably didn't read the title. I know I didn't.
Comment Vampire Plug (Score 1, Interesting) 118
What I really want is a vampire plug that sits on my optic nerve(s) and captures everything I see and records it to a hard drive. I would like it to automatically tag timestamps with my thoughts at the time, but that can wait for version 2.0.
Comment I Have No Car (Score 1) 789
I have no car you insensitive clod.
Comment I have no car. (Score 1) 1141
You insensitive clod!
My bike gets well over 9000 MPG though.
Comment Re:And this is news? (Score 1) 270
I use rmmod psmouse . (a line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) It works fine on my Dell D630, it might work for you.
Comment Re:About Software (Score 1) 126
Yes, "hello, world" should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. The comma is also unnecessary.
Comment Man in the Middle (Score 5, Funny) 234
1. Find two telemarketers who call you at (roughly) the same time.
2. Put them on the phone with each other.
3. ???
4. Hilarity ensues.
2. Put them on the phone with each other.
3. ???
4. Hilarity ensues.
Comment Three Words: (Score 1) 285
Not Bloody Likely. Motivated students, and trust me they ARE motivated, are far more effective than the MAFIAA leaning on the government leaning on schools.
MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want 453
jangel writes "While its strategy for mobile devices might be a mess, Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented design for battery contacts will allow users of portable devices — digital cameras, flashlights, remote controls, toys, you name it — to insert their batteries in any direction. Compatible with AA and AAA cells, among others, the 'InstaLoad' technology does not require special electronics or circuitry, the company claims."
Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion 93
danielkennedy74 writes "Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami code correctly (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter). This is a cheat code that appeared in many of Konami's video games, starting around 1986 — my favorite places to use it were Contra and Life Force, 30 lives FTW. The Easter egg was probably included by a developer unbeknownst to the Newsweek powers that be. It's reminiscent of an incident that happened at ESPN last year, involving unicorns."
Comment Good Riddance (Score 5, Funny) 460
Unless we can set up a colony there, it just isn't worth it.
The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.
YEAHHHHHHHH!
The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.
YEAHHHHHHHH!
Comment Troubling This Is. (Score 1) 3
I sense a trap. Economies that play ``leap frog'' typically do very badly in the long term. See Russia. The parallels are uncanny.
