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Comment Re:Goofy glasses (Score 1, Redundant) 154

by It's the tripnaut! on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @12:08PM (#31911628) Attached to: The Nuts and Bolts of PlayStation 3D

Everyone I've talked to about it says something like 'I don't care much about the movies, but have you seen football in 3D? It's just like being there! I don't want to buy stadium tickets anymore, I'll just watch from my house!' I'm not a sports fan, but the video I saw of volleyball in 3D made it pretty clear how cool sports look in 3D.

The "killer app" for home 3D will most probably be porn.

Submission + - Aliens are likely to look and behave like us (telegraph.co.uk) 1

Submitted by It's the tripnaut! on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @04:03PM

It's the tripnaut! writes: The Daily Telegraph has posted an article stating that 'Professor Simon Conway Morris at Cambridge University will tell a conference on alien life that extraterrestrials will most likely have evolved just like "earthlings" and so resemble us to a degree with heads, limbs and bodies.' They also add a cautionary note that 'Unfortunately they will have also evolved our foibles and faults which could make them dangerous if they ever did visit us on Earth.'

Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government 651

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 14, 2010 @01:46PM from the well-this-isn't-good dept.

forand writes Researchers, examining the attacks on Google and over 20 other companies in December, have determined 'the source IPs and drop server of the attack correspond to a single foreign entity consisting either of agents of the Chinese state or proxies thereof.'"

Comment Re:They can't even make a decent phone (Score 1) 338

by It's the tripnaut! on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @04:28PM (#30674426) Attached to: Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement

So what makes Microsoft think that they can make a decent tablet?

They will probably leverage on the advances that they've gained with multi-touch interfaces courtesy of Microsoft Surface.

Comment Money, money, money (Score 2) 350

by It's the tripnaut! on Saturday August 29, 2009 @02:42AM (#29240339) Attached to: Is "Good Enough" the Future of Technology?

It's the economy, stupid.

Comment Ubuntu Netbook Remix (Score 1) 343

by It's the tripnaut! on Thursday July 09, 2009 @12:55PM (#28638493) Attached to: Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners

I currently run Ubuntu Netbook Remix on an Acer Aspire One (8GB SSD version). I have been very happy with it.

The only reason I'm ever gonna move on to the Chrome OS is if I see a serious performance boost over my UNR-powered netbook.

Submission + - Michael Jackson has died

Submitted by

geekdoc

on Thursday June 25, 2009 @07:08PM

geekdoc writes: "Multiple news sources are reporting that Michael Jackson has died at 50. It had been reported that he was in a coma at the UCLA Medical Center after suffering cardiac arrest at home. "Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, said he was told by brother Randy Jackson that Michael Jackson collapsed at his home in west Los Angeles, California, Thursday morning.""

Submission + - AP Reports Michael Jackson Dead in LA

Submitted by mache on Thursday June 25, 2009 @07:07PM

mache writes: The New York Times has an AP report that says that Michael Jackson is dead at age 50 in LA. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-hospitalized/?hp

Submission + - 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles' (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

It's the tripnaut!

on Thursday June 25, 2009 @02:22PM

It's the tripnaut! writes: "The BBC reports that Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around 'as high as a kite', a government official has said. 'The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles,' says Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania. 'Then they crash,' she added."

Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing 821

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 25, 2009 @11:43AM from the snow-leopard-is-cheaper dept.

It's the tripnaut! writes "Information Week has posted prices for Windows 7. From the article: 'The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219.' In a nod to the global economic downturn, it is interesting to note that prices are 10% lower than Vista."

Submission + - Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing

Submitted by It's the tripnaut! on Thursday June 25, 2009 @11:06AM

It's the tripnaut! writes: Information Week has posted prices for Windows 7. From the article: 'The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219.' In a nod to the global economic downturn, it is interesting to note that prices are 10% lower than Vista.

Comment Mitnick and Lamo think otherwise (Score 5, Interesting) 139

by It's the tripnaut! on Saturday June 06, 2009 @03:36PM (#28235591) Attached to: Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council

Kevin Mitnick and Adrian Lamo do not seem to like the idea of Moss getting the nod. Mitnick prefers Bruce Schneier while Lamo believes Moss is a suit, "the reality is he's as corporate as hiring someone out of Microsoft."

I wonder what the reaction in the tech community would have been had the 2 above gotten the call instead.

Comment Re:Answer: yes (Score 1) 323

by It's the tripnaut! on Sunday June 17, 2007 @07:03PM (#19544879) Attached to: Can Apple Find a European iPhone Partner?

I would have to agree.

From all the posts and comments above, it seems quite clear to most of us not living in the US that the average US resident has very little exposure to the latest in mobile phones. They are not to be blamed, of course, as the providers that they are stuck with force them to use clunky phones with ridiculous features and UI's (as compared to the latest Samsung, Nokia and Sony Ericsson generation of mobile phones). I guess this is also the reason that so much hype has accompanied the iPhone's impending release. Truth be told, the iphone's features have been around in Asian and European mobile phones ever since 2003. Nowadays, a mobile phone in Asia and Europe would not be top notch without:

a multiple megapixel camera capable of 30fps videos of decent quality;
gps;
wifi;
bluetooth;
music and video players;
video conference capabilities, and other 3G goodness;
Symbian OS with tons of applications;
and at least a week of battery life.

The iphone, when stacked against the competition overseas, comes out as an overhyped and underfeatured product with an extravagant price, quite disappointing considering the pedigree of the company that made it.

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