Comment Re:Is it the 1st of April yet? (Score 1) 129
http://www.ighome.com/ is also worth mentioning.
Comment Re:Why cloud? (Score 2) 79
Hiring a company that already knows how to do this stuff is probably a hell of a lot cheaper in the short run than funding a new one.
Comment Re:Any women's magazine cover will show you (Score 1) 72
Pretty sure it's the case with all magazines.
Comment Sure, here you are, with a $20 tip. (Score 4, Funny) 371
Comment Re:Different Markets (Score 1) 639
Plus Apple's been selling hardware for over 35 years. Google's experience has been web apps, and that's been for less than 15 years.
Comment Re:Will it work? (Score 1) 162
The average user won't care. They'll continue getting their music from youtube, games from steam and TV from iplayer or 4od. Most pirates won't care much either. TPB became a virus fest when it became popular.
Comment Re:Fucking morons. (Score 1) 162
Overpriced - yep. Censored - yep, like every other ISP. Incompetent - not as an ISP. Great uptime, decent enough speed, plus you get to use their wifi hotspots which are located in pretty much every street. If you don't mind paying they are one of the best ISPs around.
Comment Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score 2) 269
Maybe we just don't need it? Our closest apps to AI are Siri and whatever the Android voice app is. All they do is retrieve information. Same as a google search. Nearly everyone under 30 (and quite a few over that) grew up with computers and most know how to use them. True turing AI at this point would only really benefit people who don't know how to find information themselves.
Submission + - Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week (itproportal.com) 2
hypnosec writes: Several of Ubisoft's biggest titles won't be playable as of next week thanks to a server move by the publisher and the restrictive DRM that was used in their development. This isn't just multiplayer either. Because Ubisoft thought it would be a smart plan to use always on DRM for even the single player portion of games like Assassin's Creed, even the single player portion of that title won't be playable during the server move. Some of the other games affected by this move will be Tom Clancy's HAWX 2, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 and The Settlers 7. The Mac games that will be broken during this period are Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell Conviction and The Settlers. This move was announced this week as part of a community letter, with Ubisoft describing how the data servers for many of the publisher's online services would be migrated from third party facilities to a new location starting on the 7th February. The publisher didn't reveal how long the transfer would take.
Comment Re:I've noticed this too (Score 1) 601
Lost your password? We can either email it to you, or send it to all your IM accounts as a message.
Comment Re:Hilarity (Score 1) 434
[quote]2. At least they told their users in a prompt manner. [/quote]
The hack happened 5 days ago, and this is the first statement even confirming it happened. That's a long time on the internet.
Comment Re:Good. Why be limited by outdated media? (Score 1) 488
I brought a dvd/cd drive 4 or 5 years ago. I only ever use it about once a year when I get new hardware and need to install drivers (which I then update from the 'net). I'm sure at some point hardware will come with a usb install instead of an optical disc, but atm it's going the way of the floppy drive.
Comment Re:I haven't burned a CD in years... (Score 1) 488
If you've got old hardware, install an older version. If you've got a computer without a cd drive, install an os that can boot from floppies.
Comment Re:Better quality video (Score 1) 113
Video didn't work for me either on chrome. Direct link does.
Comment Re:Oblig. Fun Theory (Score 1) 227
How many people went up and down the stairs several times and messed up the traffic?
