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Comment Re:So the Pre 1.0 makes me appreciate my Treo 755p (Score 2, Informative) 283

by n1ffo on Sunday June 07, 2009 @03:15AM (#28239677) Attached to: Palm Pre Is Out, Time For Discussion

Classic will allow you to run Agendus on the Pre. If you can adjust to the hardware differences, it might be worth considering.

Comment Re:Let's Stand Up - A Call to Action (mildly O/T) (Score 4, Informative) 241

by n1ffo on Sunday April 27, 2008 @09:59AM (#23213742) Attached to: BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA

Why don't we, through /., set up a site, aggregate information about similiar cases and build up a body of evidence to "[...] show that the RIAA engaged in serial bad-faith lawsuits [...]". In the long run, the space could serve as a place for debate on the current copyright regime, the inflated monetary value assigned to the songs/movies downloaded, etc.

It seems to me like Groklaw would be a perfect place for this sort of activity. After all, isn't it the sort of thing they did in the early days of the SCO trial?

Feed news.com: Sucking it up with the new Roomba (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @12:32AM

Cats and spare change, take notice: there's a new Roomba in town.
Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba
Video: New Roomba put to the test

Journal Journal: Researchers find culprit in aging muscles that heal poorly

Journal by stemceller on Thursday August 09, 2007 @09:48PM

Communication is critical. Garbled in, garbled out, so to (mis-)speak. Workers who get incomplete instructions produce an incomplete product, and that's exactly what happens with the stem cells in our aging muscles, according to researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Feed Wired: Darpa's New Tools for Net Defenders and Cybersnoops (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday August 09, 2007 @09:12PM

Facing a rising tide of e-mail, web surfing and other online activities, the Pentagon wants to use the laws of heat flow to monitor network traffic.

Submission + - Algorithm That Seemlesly Patches Holes in Images (cmu.edu)

Submitted by

Beetle B.

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:09PM

Beetle B. writes: "From the site:

'What can you do with a million images? In this paper we present a new image completion algorithm powered by a huge database of photographs gathered from the Web. The algorithm patches up holes in images by finding similar image regions in the database that are not only seamless but also semantically valid. Our chief insight is that while the space of images is effectively infinite, the space of semantically differentiable scenes is actually not that large. For many image completion tasks we are able to find similar scenes which contain image fragments that will convincingly complete the image. Our algorithm is entirely data-driven, requiring no annotations or labelling by the user. Unlike existing image completion methods, our algorithm can generate a diverse set of image completions and we allow users to select among them. We demonstrate the superiority of our algorithm over existing image completion approaches.'

English translation: The algorithm replaces arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a totally seamless manner."

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