Comment Re:A great source of +5 comments (Score 1) 233

by coresnake on Sunday December 20, 2009 @06:03AM (#30502986) Attached to: "Nexus One" Is Google's Android Phone

No root? No keyboard? No purchase.

Comment Serious question (Score 1) 272

by coresnake on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @09:01AM (#30212482) Attached to: Opera Closes China Loophole; Reinstates Censorship

So does anyone have a useful alternative to offer? I'm bummed now that I can't watch YouTube anymore (again).

Comment Re:Free speech and democracy? (Score 1) 869

by coresnake on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @04:31PM (#29124695) Attached to: Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker

Why so serious?

3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License 313

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 07, 2008 @06:25PM from the damned-recursion-damned-recursion dept.

Rob O'Neill writes "A Kiwi open source developer is working on a self-replicating 3D printer, RepRap, to be made available under the GNU license. 'The 3D printer works by building components up in layers of plastic, mainly polylactic acid (PLA), which is a bio-degradable polymer made from lactic acid. The technology already exists, but commercial machines are very expensive. They also can't copy themselves, and they can't be manipulated by users, says Vik Olliver. RepRap has a different idea. The team, which is spread over New Zealand, the UK and the US, develops and gives away the designs for its much cheaper machine, which also has self-copying capabilities. It wants to make the machine available to anybody — including small communities in the developing world, as well as people in the developed world, says Olliver. Accordingly, the RepRap machine is distributed, at no cost, under the GNU (General Public License).'"

Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3

Submitted by

Vigile

on Thursday January 17, 2008 @03:26AM

Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."

First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test 133

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 11, 2008 @10:42AM from the turn-on-tune-in-render dept.

ddanier writes "Now that all major browsers have mastered the ACID2 test (at least in some preview versions), work on ACID3 has begun. The new test will focus on ECMAScript, DOM Level 3, Media Queries, and data: URLs. 100 tests will be put into functions each returning either true or false depending on the result of the test. The current preview of ACID3 is still missing 16 tests."

BUG - "The LEGO of Gadgets" 131

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @12:42PM from the well-it-looks-neat-at-least dept.

TheBrutalTruth writes "Bug Labs will soon be launching what Webware calls 'the LEGO of gadgets.' From their site: 'BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest, letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/web community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program, and share innovative devices and applications. We don't define the final products — you do.'" Looks a bit vaporous, but conceptually interesting.