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Comment Re:Just a thought (Score 4, Insightful) 466

Probably not, for two good reasons.

-Apple has taken legal action against the journalist at Gizmodo reporting on the previous prototype. This would not have happened if the leak was intentional.

-Apple is not stupid. They know about the Osborne Effect - that releasing too much hype and information on new products causes immediate losses as people who would have bought the current product sit and wait for the new product's release instead.
OS X

Submission + - Steam and Portal avail on Mac on May the 12th (steampowered.com)

sebvajda writes: The official press release is out, starting tomorrow May the 12th, 2010, the Steam platform will be available for download on Mac OS/X.
The fist game that will have native port will be Valve's Portal and Runic Games' Torchlight.
In addition, the native OS/X port of the Source engine is made available to licensees as well as the Steamworks development and publishing tools.

Comment "Steep" learning curve (Score 4, Interesting) 246

This is one of my pet peeves.

A steep learning curve refers to something that is quickly learned, as the curve that represents knowledge over time would indeed be steep in that case.

Something difficult would have a shallow learning curve, not a steep one.

Comment A few months ago (Score 1) 505

I bought a pack of floppies around new year's. The reason is that I needed to upgrade my circa-2007 motherboard's BIOS to fix BSODs, and the way to do that required booting from a Windows 98 floppy disk.

I'm not kidding. The board was an MSI 975X Express Platinum PowerUp Edition. It was by far the worst motherboard I ever used.

Comment Wrong headline! (Score 1) 1

I'm closely following this project. The headline for this submission is at best misleading, at worst outright wrong, depending on your definition of "shipping"

The parts are being shipped to Great Britain to be assembled. Completed units are NOT being shipped to customers at this time.
Emulation (Games)

Submission + - Emulation for preservation of digital artifacts (theatlantic.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Author Salman Rushdie donated his papers and notes to Emory University a while ago. Not surprisingly, many of Rushdie's original notes, drafts, and correspondence existed in electronic form. Rather than printing them out or converting them to other formats, archivists at the university created an emulated image of Rushdie's old computer, complete with old software. Researchers visiting the archive can read his email in Eudora and his Stickies notes, or read drafts of his books in ClarisWorks. When you leave your legacy to future generations, would you like a virtualized copy of your personal system to be included?
PlayStation (Games)

Final Fight Brings Restrictive DRM To the PS3 240

Channard writes "As reported by Joystiq, the PS3/PlayStation Network version of Final Fight Double Impact features a rather restrictive piece of digital rights management. In order to launch the game, you have to be logged into the PlayStation Network and if you're not, the game refuses to launch. This could be written off as a bug of some kind except for the fact that the error message that crops up tells you to sign in, suggesting Sony/Capcom intentionally included this 'feature.' Granted, you do have to log into the PlayStation Network to buy the title but as one commentator pointed out, logging in once does not mean you'll be logged in all the time. Curiously, the 360 version has no such restrictions, so you can play the game whether you're online or offline. But annoying as this feature may be, there may be method in Sony's madness. "
Media

Submission + - www.timesonline.co.uk de-indexed from Google (brentdpayne.com)

whencanistop writes: I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out — but The Times recently announced that it was going to put itself behind a pay wall (for when The Times does go behind a pay wall and you can't see that article, here is a link to The Guardian's article on it). Now Google has apparently decided that it is going to remove The Times from its search index (just in case they get put back) so that users will not be able to find it by natural search (it still seems to appear in Google News). Interestingly this doesn't appear to have been done by The Times as there is nothing in its robots.txt that states that this should be disallowed. To prove how annoying this actually is, I had to go back to my blog to find a link to that article stating what The Times is doing because I couldn't find it in Google. It's also worth pointing out that in Google.co.uk, if you search for "The Times" you now get pointed to the new domain and not the old one.

Submission + - ACTA treaty released (arstechnica.com)

roju writes: The full text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was released today. It differs from the earlier leaks in that the negotiating stances of each country has been scrubbed. Preliminary analysis is up at ars, who warn that "Several sections of the ACTA draft show that rightsholders can obtain an injunction just by showing that infringement is "imminent," even if it hasn't happened yet."

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