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Comment Ground-breaking video technology (Score 0) 152

I recommend reading the whole complaint if you want a good (if slightly deressing) laugh. Looks like one bunch of greedy hucksters complaining about their treatment by an even greedier huckster.

So what do MYC do? "MYC, in its own unique way, also creates “joy” and solves problems." Aha.

"The cutting edge MYC video platform ... breaks down a video into its individual frames, sometimes numbering into the millions depending the video's length" (At 24 frames per second that is a video over 11 hours long isn't it?) "The sentiment analysis AI engine mines the metadata embedded in each frame" (huh?!) "to isolate individual merchandise depicted" - I think they mean recognizes a Ferrari or a Rolex. ".. and instantaneously searches the Internet for a match, thereby allowing the user to immediately purchase the item without leaving the .. video experience".

Bringing joy to the world and solving problems indeed.

Comment Immaturity (Score 0) 130

There is a reason why there is an age limit on becoming President of the USA. However *smart* you are, wisdom always takes time to develop. And one sign of wisdom is not too change things for the sake of change. Imagine if the UX designers were unleashed on the car industry, we'd be steering with pedals (it's so much more intuitive!) and braking with a lever (focus groups really liked it!). A consistent interface is better than a volatile interface: QWERTY vs Dvorjak etc, telephone and calculator button layout etc.

Graphics

How To Play HD Video On a Netbook 205

Barence writes with some news to interest those with netbooks running Windows: "Netbooks aren't famed for their high-definition video playing prowess, but if you've got about $10 and a few minutes going spare, there is a way to enjoy high-definition trailers and videos on your Atom-powered portable. You need three things: a copy of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, CoreCodec's CoreAVC codec, and some HD videos encoded in AVC or h.264 formats. This blog takes you through the process."
Math

7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289

An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

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