daniel_newton - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How Ironic (Score 1) 350

by daniel_newton on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @04:27AM (#35488892) Attached to: <em>Angry Birds</em> Exec Says Console Games Are Dying

Castle Clout is the original (Armor Games even asked and received permission to copy). But your larger point stands.. as soon as I saw Angry Birds I was reminded of Castle Clout (which is the best of them in my opinion).

Comment Re:Feudalism and the new serfdom? (Score 1) 87

by daniel_newton on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:47AM (#34086680) Attached to: Facebook Buys a Private File Sharing Service

pity noone told Oracle that

Comment Re:Fatal flaw (Score 1) 403

by daniel_newton on Monday May 10, 2010 @06:17PM (#32162846) Attached to: Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines

Actually this would be a good limiter

Comment Re:HTML 5 Canvas tag (Score 1) 411

by daniel_newton on Sunday July 26, 2009 @05:31PM (#28830201) Attached to: Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG

Canvas will probably see more use for interactive stuff, but I don't think vector graphics programs are going to start storing images as a series of javascript instructions.

Very good point... But then again, Windows Metafiles are just that, a dump of GDI api calls

Comment Re:Awesome bar disable? (Score 2, Informative) 385

by daniel_newton on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @08:00PM (#24410555) Attached to: Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released

you can restrict to only the url in FF3.1 alpha by using "@"

see => http://ed.agadak.net/2008/07/firefox-31-restricts-matches-keywords

For Alpha 1, you can restrict the search to your history by typing "^", or bookmarks with "*", or tagged pages with "+". To make what you've typed match only in the URL type "@", and for title/tags only use "#".

Media Server Manufacturer Wins in Court 98

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 29, 2007 @08:03PM from the gentlemen-start-your-rippers dept.

whoever57 writes "The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) has lost its bid to shut down Kaleidescope, which manufactures media servers that can copy DVDs (along with decryption keys) to built in hard drives. The DVD CCA claimed that this violated the terms of the contracts that control DVD-related equipment because the DVD need not be physically present for payback. However, the judge ruled against the DVD CCA on the narrow grounds that part of the specification of the Content Scrambling System was not part of the overall license agreement. This may open up the market for similar devices."

Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled 342

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 25, 2006 @09:12PM from the thanks-to-the-romulans dept.

Robotron23 writes "The BBC is reporting that a plan for a cloaking device has been unveiled. The design is pioneered by Professor Sir John Pendry's team of scientists from the US and Britain. Proof of the ability of his invention could be ready in just 18 months time using radar testing. The method revolves around certain materials making light "flow" around the given object like water."

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