Comment Re:Excellent (Score 5, Insightful) 177
What's more, we're working on getting libCEC to support the built in CEC support so you won't need the USB - CEC Adapter to get built in remote control support!
Submission + - XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
jones_supa writes: Raspberry Pi Foundation is informing about the capability of Raspberry Pi running XBMC smoothly, turning the board into a media centre the size of deck of cards. Looking at Pi's low price, small size and hardware 1080p support, this could make an interesting HTPC project. Included is a video demonstration of the setup. For this to be possible, XBMC guys have created a customized version that targets the beefier Raspberry Pi model.
Submission + - Firefox javascript engine becomes single threaded (mozilla.com)
An anonymous reader writes: From Mozilla engineer Luke Wagner's Blog:
With web workers in separate runtimes, there were no significant multi-threaded runtime uses remaining. Furthermore, to achieve single-threaded compartments, the platform features that allowed JS to easily ship a closure off to another thread had been removed since closures fundamentally carry with them a reference to their original enclosing scope. Even non-Mozilla SpiderMonkey embeddings had reportedly experienced problems that pushed them toward a similar shared-nothing design. Thus, there was little reason to maintain the non-trivial complexity caused by multi-threading support.
There are a lot of things that “would be nice” but what pushed us over the edge is that a single-threaded runtime allows us to hoist a lot data currently stored per-compartment into the runtime. This provides immediate memory savings.
With web workers in separate runtimes, there were no significant multi-threaded runtime uses remaining. Furthermore, to achieve single-threaded compartments, the platform features that allowed JS to easily ship a closure off to another thread had been removed since closures fundamentally carry with them a reference to their original enclosing scope. Even non-Mozilla SpiderMonkey embeddings had reportedly experienced problems that pushed them toward a similar shared-nothing design. Thus, there was little reason to maintain the non-trivial complexity caused by multi-threading support.
There are a lot of things that “would be nice” but what pushed us over the edge is that a single-threaded runtime allows us to hoist a lot data currently stored per-compartment into the runtime. This provides immediate memory savings.
Submission + - Jailbreaking Could Soon Become Illegal Again (gizmocrazed.com)
Diggester writes: "Back in July 2010, the United Stated government approved few exemptions in a federal law which made jailbreaking/rooting of electronic devices(iPhones and Android devices) legal. The court ruling stated that every three years, the exemptions have to be renewed considering they don't infringe any copyrighted material.
The three year period is due to expire and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to get the exemptions renewed. In order to do so, they have filed a petition which aims at government to declare jailbreaking legal once again. In addition to that, EFF is also asking for a change in the original ruling to include tablet devices."
The three year period is due to expire and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is looking to get the exemptions renewed. In order to do so, they have filed a petition which aims at government to declare jailbreaking legal once again. In addition to that, EFF is also asking for a change in the original ruling to include tablet devices."
Comment Open (Score 1) 87
For anyone wondering, the whole implementation will be open source, so you can port the remote to work on any other media centre, Myth, Plex, Boxee (if they want!)
Submission + - XBMC Gets a dedicated remote (tested.com)
Malard writes: XBMC users can rejoice, developers from the team have partnered with Motorola to re-develop their previously announced Nyxboard remote with RF, programmable IR and full support on Windows, Mac, Linux and Original Apple TVs.
Comment Re:Why does this code even exist? (Score 1) 213
Given that it only affects 5.2 and 5.3, (and without reviewing the codebase) maybe they did move to strtod() since.
Comment 1999? (Score 1) 1027
Did anyone else notice that the article linked to is even by slashdot standards, 'old news' July 6th 1999. I think with wikipedia and better knowledge distribution systems this survey would be very different now.
Comment Re:Flawed (Score 1) 187
When my dad taught me to drive he told me to keep my window down (if possible) and listen for the tyre noise of overtaking vehicles.
I dont know about the rest of the world, but when i was taught to drive, I was told to use my mirrors and visually check my blind spots.
Comment Re:You call that hoarding? (Score 1) 268
in most countries wives use that as grounds for divorce
Comment Re:Goofy glasses (Score 3, Informative) 154
The thing is, designer 3D glasses are still avoiding the underlying issue that its a hack on the eye.
The real issue is not stereoscopic picture but accomodation of the eye. The eye is not being strained to adjust to the varying depth and that causes headaches as your brain is not used to it.
While some autostereoscopic displays are emerging such as the Ninentdo 3DS, displaying the source content on a 2D service will always leave you with the issue of accomodation
Comment Re:Build your own.... (Score 1) 100
clearly english ironic sarcasm doesnt work on a US website.
Comment Re:Build your own.... (Score 2, Funny) 100
I built one to turn a couple of rare automotive books into PDF so I dont damage a $180.00 book in the garage.
Great, so now you can damage a $1800 laptop instead?
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