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Comment I'm.. (Score 0) 331

by Catje on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:53AM (#30916464) Attached to: Typical ambient noise level, where I am right now:

in a projection booth next to a running film projector.

Square Enix Shuts Down Fan-Made Chrono Trigger Sequel 455

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:35AM from the suspicious-timing dept.

KIllagouge writes "Just days before the release of Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes, SquareEnix sent a Cease & Desist letter to Chrono Compendium to stop everything to do with Crimson Echoes. People might remember when they did this with Chrono Resurrection. Seems to be the growing trend; instead of listening to their fans, which would net them even more money, game developers continue to lock down old gaming IP. A copy of the C&D letter is available online." The fan project had been in development since 2004 and was 98% complete.

Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs 256

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @05:25AM from the see-you-at-the-base-camp dept.

DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."

Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters 397

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @02:05PM from the distance-rocks dept.

Joe Decker writes "The Nevada Lightning Laboratory has experimented with Nicola Tesla's methods of wireless power transmission to push 800 Watts over 5 meters, besting MITs mark of 60W over 2 meters last year. (May I dream of wireless laptop power? I hate power cords.)"

Comment Re:That sucks (Score 1) 773

by Catje on Monday December 08, 2008 @07:36PM (#26041133) Attached to: Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity

The old addage:

"Why did God give women breasts?"

"So men would talk to them.".

I've found women frown on men talking to their breasts.

Comment Re:"soon-to-be Leader of the Free World" (Score 1) 608

by Catje on Monday December 08, 2008 @08:26AM (#26031023) Attached to: Obama's "ZuneGate"

A citizenship, willingly held, implies some degree of loyalty to the state in which it is held.

Morocco doesn't allow its citizens to give up their citizenship.

Comment Re:Frame rate (Score 1) 603

by Catje on Friday November 28, 2008 @10:15AM (#25915651) Attached to: 18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD

Even if this were true, I don't understand how it would be an improvement over simply reversing the pulldown and displaying 24 progressive fps rather than 120. After all, if you redraw the same frame once or a hundred times over the same interval on a progressive display, the result is exactly the same.

The result wouldn't be the same, because there would be progressively less black in the video. This is exactly how (normal 35mm) film projection works. Every film frame is projected twice before being transported and replaced by the next frame. So you're watching 24fps at 48 hz.

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