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Comment Re:So wait . . . (Score 1) 290

by zigurat667 on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @05:48PM (#39419675) Attached to: Apple Sued By Belgian Consumer Association For Not Applying EU Warranty Laws

Forgot about that, but does anyone actually pay it?

Comment Re:So wait . . . (Score 1) 290

by zigurat667 on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @08:59AM (#39412293) Attached to: Apple Sued By Belgian Consumer Association For Not Applying EU Warranty Laws

You mean like just taking the $ price tag and charge the same in € ?

Comment Re:I'm assuming PC/Laptop versus Smartphone/tablet (Score 1) 296

by zigurat667 on Friday March 09, 2012 @07:30AM (#39299317) Attached to: My PC use accounts for __% of my computing time

Does that change when in a hotel room with the computer?

Only if you buy it dinner first!

Comment Re:vaporware (Score 1) 286

by zigurat667 on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @06:46AM (#39183483) Attached to: AMD's Piledriver To Hit 4GHz+ With Resonant Clock Mesh

If you wanted to know what it is, you might want to read this paper.

I found it quite interesting, despite not understanding that much.
Maybe it's the 'fuzzy whitepaper' OP mentioned, but we'll never know.

Comment Re:Truce (Score 5, Informative) 164

by zigurat667 on Saturday February 25, 2012 @07:41AM (#39157445) Attached to: Push Email Suspended On iPhones In Germany

It's not about push e-mail but about status synchronization between multiple devices. See page 13 of the patent.

Comment .NET (Score 3, Insightful) 172

by zigurat667 on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @03:38PM (#39128663) Attached to: FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine

had to read that three times until I realized that this Manufacturing.net is a website and has nothing to do with .NET reporting

Comment Re:So what is the fuss? (Score 1) 267

by zigurat667 on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:18AM (#39110109) Attached to: With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms

I think you're right with this, basically the news is that CUPS gets a new lead developer as the former only continues to develop his product for a practically non-existent share of office printers that only accept input in Apples latest proprietary format.

Comment Re:Somewhat disappointing.. (Score 2) 71

by zigurat667 on Monday December 05, 2011 @08:05AM (#38264286) Attached to: Google Employees Are Receiving Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade

Also a Nexus S owner here. Don't mistake the people claiming that the CM9 alpha/beta is running smooth for a 'Gingerbread smooth'. It's smooth for an alpha build missing official drivers and kernel but nothing more.

Comment Re:what I want to know is... (Score 1) 154

by zigurat667 on Friday September 23, 2011 @03:41AM (#37488638) Attached to: Canberra Police Want Drones To Track Cars

Sooner than you might think, according to this Wikipedia article Predator drones can be equipped with up to two Hellfire missiles.

Comment .org? (Score 1) 219

by zigurat667 on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @10:01AM (#37177874) Attached to: Atari Targets Retro Community With Cease & Desist

As long as they don't go after atari2600.com, nobody will notice a disappearing parked domain.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 161

by zigurat667 on Friday August 12, 2011 @06:45AM (#37066564) Attached to: Google Adds Games To Google+

just try https://plus.google.com/games , but currently it says

We're glad you want to play games on Google+. Don't worry, your turn is coming up! We're currently testing with a small number of Google+ users. Please check back soon..

Comment Re:Much more detailed review at Ars (Score 1) 302

by zigurat667 on Saturday June 18, 2011 @05:30AM (#36484004) Attached to: Galaxy Tab 10.1 Judged 'No Match For iPad'

They definitely took their time to deliver that second mouse button...

Submission + - Interview with Focardi, father of Ni-H Cold-Fusion (blogspot.com)

Submitted by gigarello on Saturday April 16, 2011 @05:19AM

gigarello writes: From the article: "A container, with a small cylinder inside, a tray for the nickel, which is the component we were using (we experimented with other metals too, we did all sorts of things), hydrogen — obviously, you can get it out of a gas bottle or produce it with electrolysis, depending on the application. You heat the system with a resistor, an (electric) current; at a certain point the system begins to produce energy. And the energy that comes out is more than the energy given at input."

Comment Re:Cute, but not accurate (Score 1) 392

by zigurat667 on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:59AM (#35550910) Attached to: A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD

The real unit behind sievert is not J/s but J/kg.

Comment Am I awake? (Score 1) 535

by zigurat667 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:11PM (#35081458) Attached to: Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

Microsoft has an interoperability manager ??

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