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Re:Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video] on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:02AM (#12659401)
I wonder if your spouse would be impressed that she sees your avatar instead of you in a video call. It may be novel in the first 1-2 times, but then it'll get tiresome very soon. Especially since the avatars are so poorly made (and with teeth, really?).
Re:The Chinese character system is a brake on development on Friday January 22, 2016 @05:54AM (#10952005)
The past/perfect tenses, the infinitives and gerunds, the active/passive/possessive/nonpossessive, the he/she/his/her, of the English language is... a pain.

Chinese is much simpler! :D

Re:Super Resolution from a Single Image (2009) on Sunday October 18, 2015 @08:17PM (#10410418)
It has a visual style that looks like a "photorealism" painting. Quite amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorealism