Comment Re:Licensing Fees (Score 1) 473
(so you land at cbs.com or comedycentral.com, etc., and wind up watching via different, lower-quality, proprietary players).
Hulu stopped using Flash?
Submission + - Creator of China's Great Firewall Pelted withShoes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Guardian reports that Chinese police are seeking a man who said he threw eggs and shoes at the architect of China's "great firewall", the world's most sophisticated and extensive online censorship system as his claims were cheered by many internet users, in a reflection of growing anger among them about increasingly stringent controls. The office of Fang Binxing, known as the father of the great firewall, denied the attack had happened, but Associated Press said police were sent to the university to investigate a shoe-throwing incident targeting Fang, citing an officer at the Luojiashan public security bureau. The Twitter user who claimed to have pelted him, who posts under the pseudonym @hanunyi, wrote: "The egg missed the target. The first shoe hit the target. The second shoe was blocked by a man and a woman." Earlier this year Fang closed a microblog within days of opening it after thousands of Chinese internet users left comments, almost all of them deriding him as "a running dog for the government" and "the enemy of netizens". Meanwhile admirers of the shoe attacker showered the anonymous young man with promises of everything from Nike trainers to replace his lost footwear, to iPads, sex and jobs."
Comment Re:.NET (Score 1) 381
That's exactly what I thought. However, isn't the "full version" of .NET too big (a few GB) for mobile devices?
Comment Customer responsibility (Score 1) 293
I dislike these 'pay-up-or-else-schemes' as much as anybody else. But in shouldn't each ISP customer be accountable for what happens on their connection? If you decide to share the connection with your family/friends/neighbours it's your job to ensure that they don't abuse it.
Otherwise anyone could set up an open wifi and deny any responsibilities for what happens on the connection...
Comment Re:you could triangulate (Score 1) 207
While AJAX has the Same-Origin-Policy you can load an image- or script-file from any domain you want.
Comment Re:Was Microsoft Riight? (Score 1) 716
I hope the Zune is excluded in your statement, because it had/has a pretty nice GUI that exactly fits its purpose.
Comment Chrome's PDF-Viewer sucks (Score 1) 453
The title says it. Adobe's plugin can display slideshows the way they are supposed to work, by instantly displaying the next page when hitting down. Chrome's viewer just acts like a word processor sliding the pages up slowly, which sucks for reading some slides online.
Comment Re:People think "stream" means no one can save it. (Score 1) 652
You sir, are absolutely right!
Submission + - Pocket Wars and Cores (linux-mag.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "If I were to ask you what is the most popular processor used in phones and pads, and you said, “ARM,” you would be correct. Now comes the trick question, “Who make ARM processors?” Not the ARM Holdings company. They design processors and license their designs to manufactures. They also have a reputation for creating very low power designs. Interestingly, while almost everyone else was out ramping clocks and power consumption (until they hit a wall) ARM was chugging along addressing the low power end of the market. Now that low-power is all the rage, due to phones and pads, ARM has become quite a bit more popular."
Submission + - Charlie Sheen Fired From 'Two and a half Men' (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Warner Bros. Television announced today that it has dropped the actor from its hit comedy Two and a Half Men. “After careful consideration"
Submission + - How the PC is making consoles look out of date (pcauthority.com.au)
An anonymous reader writes: What has been clear from this year’s Games Developer Conference is that consoles are beginning to show their age. With nothing beyond a possible Nintendo update on the horizon, developers at this year's GDC have turned their eyes to the PC. This article includes three videos that give a fantastic insight into where PC graphics are headed, including a version of Epic's Unreal engine, Crytek's Cryengine 3, and DICE's Frostbite 2 engine. Considering that these leaps in eye candy are only possible with the current state of PC graphics we wonder how long consoles will be the target platform for development of blockbuster games.
Submission + - Crime Writer Makes a Killing with 99 Cent eBooks
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Joe Konrath has an interesting interview with independent writer John Locke who currently holds the coveted #1 spot in the Amazon Top 100 and has sold just over 350,000 downloads on Kindle of his 99 cent books since January 1st of this year which with a royalty rate of 35%, is an annual income well over $500k. Locke says that 99 cents is the magic number and adds that when he lowered the price of his book "The List" from $2.99 to 99 cents, he started selling 20 times as many copies — about 800 a day, turning his loss lead into his biggest earner. "These days the buying public looks at a $9.95 eBook and pauses. It’s not an automatic sale," says Locke. "And the reason it’s not is because the buyer knows when an eBook is priced ten times higher than it has to be. And so the buyer pauses. And it is in this pause—this golden, sweet-scented pause—that we independent authors gain the advantage, because we offer incredible value." Kevin Kelly predicts that within 5 years all digital books will cost 99 cents. "I don't think publishers are ready for how low book prices will go," writes Kelly. "It seems insane, dangerous, life threatening, but inevitable.""
Submission + - Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder (mozilla.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Similarly to Google with Chrome Experiments and Microsoft with Internet Explorer Test Drive, Mozilla has developed an HTML5 demo site to showcase the latest features supported by Firefox 4. Mozilla's Paul Roget writes, 'Firefox 4 is almost here, and comes with a huge list of awesome features for web developers. In order to illustrate all these new technical features, we put together several Web demos. You’ll see a couple of demos released every week until the final version of Firefox 4. You can see the first 3 demos online now on our brand new demo web site: Web’O Wonder' Unlike certain other HTML5 demo sites, Mozilla's site works in any browser that supports the features used in the demo.
Submission + - Browser Status Bars Lose The Plot (wordpress.com)
Anonymous Coward writes: "The revolution brought into the browser market by Google's Chrome made a lot of engineers on competing browsers sit up and take notice. Everyone made their browsers slicker, with cleaner UIs. Sadly the most annoying Chrome feature of all has become viral: the forever-moving ADHD-inducing Browser Status Bubble has now reached both IE9 and Firefox4 Beta 12 despite a raft of complaints on the Chromium bug tracker."
Submission + - Webcast: Moving apps to Windows Azure Cloud (asp.net)
Anonymous Coward writes: "On Tuesday 8 March at 8am (USA Pacific Time) Itzik Spitzen VP of R&D @ Gizmox will present a webcast on Microsoft Academy demonstrating the new tools for Windows Azure allowing to step up to the SaaS delivery model and enjoy the Cloud’s economics & scalability at minimal cost & time."
