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Comment Re:Why directors shouldn't resist... (Score 1) 521

He's not so much talking about supertrendyshakycam, as much as he is talking about a director not being able to, for instance: put a cameraman in a passanger seat for a shot in a car. pan through a window to the people talking inside. look at a set, decide that he'd rather shoot from a different angle, and move everything in a reasonable amount of time. oh, I'm pretty sure you could do supertrendyshakycam with 3D, too.
Power

Submission + - Light's Repulsive Force Discovered

Aurispector writes: An article on LiveScience says a newly discovered repulsive aspect to light could one day control telecommunications devices with greater speed and less power. The discovery could lead to nanodevices controlled by light rather than electricity. "The discovery was made by splitting infrared light into two beams that each travel on a different length of silicon nanowire, called a waveguide. The two light beams became out of phase with one another, creating a push, or repulsive force, with an intensity that can be controlled; the more out of phase the two light beams, the stronger the force." As an added bonus, nerds may no longer need LED's to trick out their custom gaming rigs!

Comment Re:Catering to SMEs (Score 1) 218

in reply to your bullet points:
1. I've already done this a few times. there is a proccessor flag that has to be mokeyed with if you insist of moving it while the Guest is online, otherwise, just like any other move.
2. not sure what you're asking here.
3. Part of ESX. VMs can reside on all flavors of SAN, including iSCSI. Openfiler works great for this, and runs standard SMB shares as well.
4.One of the main features of VMWare View, which is what this client supports. you can turn on this functionality in standard VirtualCenter setups, to get this functionality for servers, but View is where it all comes together. imagine doing the same thing to your clients. when all the people log off at the end of the day, all their desktop VMs go idle, and VMware dynamically moves them to consolidate to a few servers, then shuts off the rest.
Cool stuff. just found out about the Sun solution for Desktop virtualization from this thread, though, and plan to do some research to see how it stacks up.

Comment Re:The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly was a sequel. (Score 1) 585

you're right. If this is the 1960s. It also helps to be Sergio Leone, and to be making movies in spain, not hollywood. I mean, the same actors are playing different roles in all three of the Dollars trilogy, that would never fly in today's industry. Take, for instance, this Neuromancer movie that is in pre-production. IF, it makes money, and they decide they want to make a sequel, the first thing the studio execs will say is "What do you mean "Count Zero" doesn't have Case in it? Excuse us while we hire some screenwriters to fix that."
Space

Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere 185

anthemaniac writes "Astronomers have long suspected that water should exist in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. Now they have evidence. Water has been discovered in a planet called HD209458b, which was previously found to have oxygen. From the article: 'The discovery ... means one of the most crucial elements for life as we know it can exist around planets orbiting other stars.' But don't go looking for little green men. You might remember HD209458b as a 'hot Jupiter' that boils under the glow of its very nearby star."

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