Melacon - Slashdot User

Comment Going against the grain (Score 1) 336

by Melacon on Thursday January 05, 2012 @07:03AM (#38594294) Attached to: China Cuts 'Excessive Entertainment' From TV

What ever happened to Bread and Circuses for keeping the population in line? It has worked up to this point, why change it?

Comment Re:Clippy (Score 1) 260

by Melacon on Friday February 12, 2010 @02:06AM (#31109970) Attached to: OpenOffice 3.2 Released

You forgot:

That's no moon.
Hello computer?

Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code 83

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:52PM from the nice-of-them dept.

dsavi writes "Ptex, Walt Disney Animation Studio's cutting-edge 3D texture mapping library which was first used on nearly every surface in the 2008 animated feature Bolt, was released under the BSD license on Friday. Quoting the announcement on monophyl.com: 'We expect to follow Ptex with other open source projects that we hope the community will find beneficial. We will soon be launching a new Walt Disney Animation Studios Technology page under disneyanimation.com. It will include links to our open source projects as will as a library of recent publications.' This looks good for open source 3D graphics."

Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @02:45AM from the super-mario-takedown dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"

Comment Re:Torrent? (Score 1) 289

by Melacon on Saturday November 21, 2009 @07:53AM (#30183428) Attached to: Try Out Chrome OS In a Virtual Machine

It's not bandwidth utilisation that slows everything down when torrenting - it's the high amount of active connections the connection tracker on your router has to keep track of. Before you know it CPU utilisation on your router jumps to 100% and it's this that brings your network to a crawl. I have my linux box (Pentium 4 D underclocked to 1.8ghz) doing all the NAT and connection tracking and consequently can have torrents running 24/7.

Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Have a look at australia. (Score 1) 578

by Melacon on Friday May 09, 2008 @06:02AM (#23347922) Attached to: Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit

Haha you guys are complaining about a 250gb limit? Come down to Australia where the biggest telco charges you $60pm for a 256/64 service with only 12gb of usage (combined upload AND download). On some of their "non capped" plans, if you exceed your limit you get charged $150 / GB. Yes thats right. One hundred and fifty dollars per gigabyte.

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