theblinddevil - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Um.... (Score 1) 948

by theblinddevil on Saturday May 30, 2009 @11:09PM (#28155053) Attached to: Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

No, nobody gives a shit what the kernel is-- the OS is the UI, and the UI is the OS. (Think about it: if Apple ported OS X to run on the NT Kernel, would it still be OS X or would it magically turn into Windows?)

So by your reasoning, if you put KDE on Windows, it becomes Linux? Have fun trying to find a usable terminal.. or any stability.

Comment Re:How about DRM? (Score 1) 243

by theblinddevil on Saturday April 11, 2009 @01:13AM (#27539673) Attached to: GameStop Selling Games Played By Employees As New

Optical media almost never gets scratched unless you're eight years old...

Optical media almost never gets scratched unless you don't take care of it. Age has little to do with it. If someone is the kind of person that doesn't respect their property, their disc collection will likely be full of scratched, or unclean discs. In the case of GameStop, it's probably more likely for a disc to be damaged from shipping than it is from staff use, so I don't really see it being a problem. And besides, you could always return it if it's not in top condition.

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."

Worrying About Employment Contracts? 98

Posted by Cliff on Friday April 27, 2007 @02:35PM from the read-before-you-sign dept.

An anonymous reader wonders: "I was preparing to accept a software developer job at a California company and was put off by the contract which claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not) during my employment and for a year afterwards. I've found references to a couple of instances where this became a legal problem for the developer. Is this something to worry about?"

Virus Writers Target Google's Sponsored Links 115

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 25, 2007 @07:36PM from the snake-in-the-grass dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like the bad guys are gaming Google's sponsored links to spread their junk to people who click on the ads with unpatched versions of Internet Explorer. Attackers apparently bought the rights to several high profile search terms, including searches that would return results for the Better Business Bureau, among others. The story notes this was bound to happen, given the way Google structures sponsored links: "The bad guys behind the attack appeared to capitalize on an odd feature of Google's sponsored links. Normally, when a viewer hovers over a hyperlink, the name of the site that the computer user is about to access appears in the bottom left corner of the browser window. But hovering over Google's sponsored links shows nothing in that area. That blank space potentially gives bad guys another way to hide where visitors will be taken first.""

PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller 319

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 31, 2007 @07:32PM from the please-print-more-money dept.

TekkaDon writes "According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that 'PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.' Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a 'huge success' by Microsoft, which can be accounted for by the natural growth of PC sales over the years."

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