Comment Re:Utter crap (Score 1) 262
They already do sub-contract manufacturers for their hardware. The XBox360 is - like Apples products - manufactured by Foxconn (at least according to wikipedia), so that wouldn't be a huge leap.
Comment Hasn't Microsoft just done this with the Kin... (Score 5, Insightful) 262
... and failed spectacularly?
And seeing how the "make the OS, leave making the phone (mostly) to others" business model seems to be working rather well for Google, I don't see, why it shouldn't for Microsoft.
And seeing how the "make the OS, leave making the phone (mostly) to others" business model seems to be working rather well for Google, I don't see, why it shouldn't for Microsoft.
Comment Re:It's a pain in the ass to develop for (Score 1) 423
It is almost as bad as developing for AVR with AVRStudio.
I'm not following that analogy. I think AVRStudio is just fine as far as IDEs for microcontrollers go.
Comment So how are the releases going to be numbered? (Score 1) 284
even though it's called iTex, i isn't useful as a version numbering scheme...
\sqrt{2} maybe?
Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro) 463
sirgoran writes "We've all thought about being the hero fighting off evil-doers and saving the day ever since we first saw Star Wars. The folks at Wicked Lasers have now brought that a little closer to reality with their latest release: a 1-Watt blue diode laser that can set skin and other things on fire. From an article at Daily Tech, where they talk about the dangers of such a powerful laser: 'And here's the best (or worst) part — it can set people (or things) on fire. Apparently the laser is so high-powered that shining it on fleshy parts will cause them to burst into flames. Of course it's equally capable of blinding people.' The thing that caught my eye was the price: $200. I wonder if they'll be able to meet the demand, since (if it works as advertised) this will be on every geek's Christmas list."
Comment Pretty Bloated Privacy (Score 1) 160
oh great, just what everyone was waiting for.
Comment Sounds mostly reasonable to me... (Score 1) 510
...in fact, as far as I'm concerned it's about time that someone legislated how companies I have to deal with protect my personal information.
This "Written Information Security Plan"-Thing (yes, I read TFA) sounds like an unnecessary and useless PITA though...
This "Written Information Security Plan"-Thing (yes, I read TFA) sounds like an unnecessary and useless PITA though...
Comment Re:Netgear WNDR3700 (Score 1) 344
Seconded. I have one of those and it runs a svn-OpenWRT very nicely. HOWEVER, if you live in Europe or other places where radar avoidance is mandated, you can't yet use the 5GHz Band (at least not legally), because Ath9k doesn't do DFS. But it's supposed to be high on the maintainers TODO-list
What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010 413
An anonymous reader writes "The editor of Phoronix.com has toured Chernobyl's Zone of Alienation (the 30km zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) to see what the area looks like 24 years after the world's largest nuclear disaster. Many photographs from Chernobyl in 2010 have now been published, showing off the power plant and its RBMK reactors, the town of Pripyat, the town of Chernobyl, and the Red Forest. The 24th anniversary of this deadly nuclear disaster will be on April 26."
Comment Re:Outside the USofA??? (Score 1) 690
sorry for double posting, but something just occurred to me: the ratio automatic to manual transmissions is probably just about inverse over here compared to the US. So if it's true that putting it in neutral won't work on the automatic gearboxes, putting it in neutral on a manual definitely works. With that in mind the problem is not quite as critical over here.
Comment Re:Outside the USofA??? (Score 1) 690
uh, I don't know about other countries, but in Germany Toyota has a recall going for the same reason.
I think the difference is merely that our media, while insane as well, doesn't freak out quite like the media in the US. "Oh god, we're all going to die because of a problem that occurred 35 times in a vehicle pool of several millions. Oh, and buy American"
I think the difference is merely that our media, while insane as well, doesn't freak out quite like the media in the US. "Oh god, we're all going to die because of a problem that occurred 35 times in a vehicle pool of several millions. Oh, and buy American"
Comment Re:Too little, too late (Score 1) 189
well... to be completely honest: the N900 isn't really for the "normal consumer", is it? At least not yet. But I have two friends who own one and they run pretty much everything on there. From Pidgin to Duke Nukem 3D.
And the screen is 800x480, so at least in respect to window dimensions you wouldn't have to tailor that much.
Comment Re:Too little, too late (Score 1) 189
[...]Droid has way more apps available for it.[...]
uh, what? Maemo is a Debian-based Linux. There is no sandbox runtime or anything, it's pretty much a standard Linux. Which means you can install a lot of the applications you could install on any generic Linux box. So I highly doubt that there are more apps for Android than there are for Maemo.
Submission + - Tracking browsers without cookies or IP addresses? (eff.org) 1
Peter Eckersley writes: The EFF has launched a research project called Panopticlick, to determine whether seemingly innocuous browser configuration information (like User Agent strings, plugin versions and, fonts) may create unique fingerprints that allow web users to be tracked, even if they limit or delete cookies. Preliminary results indicate that the User Agent string alone has 10.5 bits of entropy, which means that for a typical Internet user, only one in about 1,500 (2 ^ 10.5) others will share their User Agent string.
If you visit Panopticlick, you can get an reading of how rare or unique your browser configuration is, as well as helping EFF to collect better data about this problem and how best to defend against it.
If you visit Panopticlick, you can get an reading of how rare or unique your browser configuration is, as well as helping EFF to collect better data about this problem and how best to defend against it.
Comment Re:I really want XBMC-HD for PS3 (Score 1) 296
PMS works on Linux too [...]
A cranky Linux? God help us.
