Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 244

Let's test your reasoning here: It's an app because it runs on a "small thing". Tablets are well known to run apps. They are 10". So, if I buy a small netbook with windows 7 on it, all of the sudden MS Office is an app and not an application? No. Doesn't make sense at all... In fact, there is NO difference at all between an app and an application, ANY phone is a small computer, nothing else.. It's perfectly obvious. A phone has the same basic components as a computer. A motherboard with a CPU, memory, storage and the other essential stuff. Apple is working their ass off to make sure everyone thinks there is a difference because it allows them to patent everything that is done in applications as "innovation" in apps. It's ridiculous.

Comment Not worried about mammoths ruling the world, but.. (Score 1) 312

... but what about microbiology?

I guess one of 3 things could happen:

  • Mammoths are poorly adapted to the evolved microbiology in the modern world, so it dies.
  • Mammoths have some weird immunesystem causing viruses/bacteria mutation and we end up with a deadly epidemic of mammoth-flu.
  • Nothing.

:)

Comment Re:Not likely (Score 1) 126

Now, unless one finds a method to obtain gold salts by using plain cooking salt (Ok... I'll make a concession and allow capsicum powder as well), this step may require indeed the use of toxic chemicals.

Who said anything about not using toxic chemicals? They used cinnamon to replace "almost all toxic chemicals".

Comment DHT (Score 1) 194

The biggest host for torrents would be the DHT network, good luck blocking all those hosts. And also, with the magnet links posted on pretty much all public torrent sites the google cache is enough to get a download started.

Graphics

Game Companies Intrigued By 3D Tech 23

An editorial by Rob Fahey looks into the possibility of game companies experimenting with modern 3D technology. Over the past decade, advances in the field have been enough for film studios to give 3D another shot, but significant price-related hurdles remain when considering individual consumers. Quoting: "[The approach presently favored by game makers] has actually been around for some time. It displays the image for the left eye, then the right eye, in quick succession on screen — while the glasses you wear close LCD 'shutters' over your eyes so that each eye only sees the appropriate image. If this is done fast enough, the brain sees no flicker — just a continuous, steady 3D image. The best thing about this final approach is that some televisions already exist which could, in theory, support it. No new display technology is required, but what you do need is a TV screen which can display twice the number of frames per second as a normal screen — since you now need one frame for each eye, where previously you had one frame for both eyes. You also need LCD glasses synched to the television's refresh rate for each viewer. All of this lies in the realms of being moderately plausible."

Slashdot Top Deals

This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian

Working...