Comment Re:Why aren't people more hyped about the Wii U? (Score 1) 188
DualShock 3's cost the same as a game, at least in the UK, which shocked me. I guess that's the price of motion and wireless
Comment Re:So the build it cheap and say sorry later (Score 1) 472
Don't worry, people like that just live in a magical world where R&D is free and people aren't paid wages.
It's doubly bullshit when people are whinging about the iPhone because it's priced pretty much exactly the same as every other high end smartphone out there.
Comment Re:SILENT updates? (Score 1) 393
Automatic updates are only bad in corporations, where it matters much more if something goes even slightly wrong. They are a brilliant idea for home use, given that your average user cannot be counted on to update anything at all.
Comment Honestly (Score 2) 311
I don't think it's too much of an issue from what I've seen. Apple definitely do it the most, but it's in programs like Calendar, Contacts, and Reminders, which perform limited functions and don't require complex user interfaces. Prettying them up a bit doesn't detract from usability.
If you were to say, add a traditional paint pallete to Photoshop, that would be a different matter.
Comment Re:Bad Design (Score 1) 311
Not really, there's only two iOS devices if you don't consider each revision a separate product.
Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 341
About the only thing UltraHD is going to introduce is a new optical disk format because broadband and content providers are incapable of creating and delivering UltraHD content without massive compression and inferior audio.
Eh, doubtful. BD-XL is a defined although currently unused standard which supports up to 128GB, they'll probably move onto that.
Comment Re:What a shame (Score 1) 780
Okay, this argument that an OS X point release is equivalent to a service pack is bullshit. New functionality, new bundled applications, rewriting and reworking underlying technologies != bug fixes and patches. The OS X 10.x.y upgrades are the equivalent of service packs, just smaller and more frequent.
Comment Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score 1) 780
You are aware that OS X comes with gcc installed right?
Comment Re:Linux on Mac?! (Score 1) 780
Even with Gatekeeper enabled, if you right-click an app and click open, rather than double clicking it, it will open/install fine.
If that's too much of an inconvenience for you, it's literally one radio button to turn it off.
Comment Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... (Score 1) 444
Surely the issue is with Secure Boot, not UEFI? Secure boot is only being pushed by Microsoft, it's not an essential part of UEFI.
Comment Re:90% of it redacted... (Score 2) 67
It's quite disgusting really.
Comment Good (Score 1) 67
Good to see the right thing has been done, for now at least.
Comment Sideways mounted GPUs? (Score 1) 1
These will likely be a very popular choice for HTPCs, especially with Intel's integrated GPUs improving as they are. Perhaps there would be a market for a taller, wider board with space for a discreet GPU, although I dread to think of the heat and airflow implications of that.
Submission + - Cache of the titans: Are SSD accelerators any good? (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "When solid-state drives first broke into the consumer market, there were those who predicted the new storage format would supplant hard drives in a matter of years thanks to radically improved performance. In reality, the shift from hard drives (HDDs) to SSDs has thus far been confined to the upper end of the PC market. For cost-conscious buyers and OEMs, the higher performance they offer is still too expensive and the total capacity is insufficient. SSD cache drives have emerged as a means of addressing this situation. They are small, typically containing between 20-60GB of NAND flash and are paired with a standard hard drive. Once installed, drivers monitor which applications and files are accessed most often, then cache those files on the SSD. It can take the software 1-2 runs to start caching data, but once this process is complete, future access and boot times are significantly enhanced. ExtremeTech compares the effect of SSD cache solutions — Intel Smart Response Technology, and Nvelo Dataplex — on the performance of a VelociRaptor, and a slow WD Caviar drive. The results are surprisingly positive."
Submission + - The world's greatest competitive programmer (technologyreview.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Technology Review profiles Petr Mitrichev, who has since 2005 dominated the world of competitive programming, a little known sport where competitors furiously code for five hours in pursuit of glory and cash prizes worth tens of thousands of dollars. Mitrichev now works for Google, and competes only for leisure, but is still ranked number one. Many large tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, now sponsor and pay close attention to competitive coding contests, seeing them as a place to recruit new talent.
