Comment Re:Now we're doomed! (Score 1) 423
I stopped reading after the '
Comment Re:Not Facebook! (Score 1) 326
Because every time Google auto-corrects a word, God kills one kitten. And then the Grammar Nazi kills another. It's so sad.
Comment Bees on a plane (Score 0) 44
Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these motherfuckin' bees on this motherfuckin' plane!
-- Neville Flynn
Comment Re:Many users are on 10 or 25gig? (Score 3, Informative) 173
$2,000?
15 cents/MB ~= $154 per GB
Still ridiculously expensive anyway.
Comment Re:I love moderates (Score 1) 1318
Parent was probably referring to Theo van Gogh.
Comment Re:We Are Now At XKCD DEFCON 4 (Score 1) 553
Clearly you haven't been targeted by Stephenie Meyer.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 572
Ouch, I'll shut up now. Thought you were making that up, my bad.
Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 572
You're giving the linux term too much credit.
./steam -uG tf -o .
more like it
more like it
Comment Re:The Internet is Full (Score 1) 520
Buffering
Comment This will come in handy... (Score 3, Funny) 252
... for those extended versions of the Lord of The Rings that will finally be coming on BluRay next year.
"Oh, this would have required so many discs with that old BluRay technology, you know, we just used these new BDXL discs and actually reduced the cost of the box set for you, the customer, by having less discs! Just don't forget to pick up one of those new players on your way to the cashier."
I kid, I kid, they would never do such a thing.
Comment Re:CmdrTaco drags big brass ones along the ground (Score 1) 750
Being on
It's not a standard, but it's almost definitely the "de-facto standard".
There are other meanings to the word 'standard' than the ones W3C et al might define.
Apple Behind Intel's USB Competitor? 332
We recently discussed Light Peak, Intel's upcoming, optical interconnect technology that boasts data transfer rates of up to 10 Gbps. While some have speculated that Light Peak will directly compete with USB 3.0, Engadget has now unearthed information that indicates the idea for the technology originated from Apple, who apparently asked Intel to develop it.
"According to documents we've seen and conversations we've had, Apple had reached out to Intel as early as 2007 with plans for an interoperable standard which could handle massive amounts of data and 'replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector (FireWire, USB, Display interface).' ... Based on what we've learned, Apple will introduce the new standard for its systems around Fall 2010 in a line of Macs destined for back-to-school shoppers — a follow-up to the 'Spotlight turns to notebooks' event, perhaps. Following the initial launch, there are plans to roll out a low-power variation in 2011, which could lead to more widespread adoption in handhelds and cellphones. The plans from October 2007 show a roadmap that includes Light Peak being introduced to the iPhone / iPod platform to serve as a gateway for multimedia and networking outputs."
Comment Re:What every player is missing (Score 1) 184
Parent (sopssa) most likely obtains 'legal' movies from scene releases, which come packed in ~40 MB rar files.
Comment Re:The real conclusion (Score 1) 263
I agree, a performance comparison on flash plugins would help shed some light on these results.
Flash performance varies considerably from OS to OS, but I haven't heard much of a variance from browser to browser within the same OS, so I did assume that they would be more or less on par.
Comment Re:The real conclusion (Score 5, Insightful) 263
But the thing is, IE processing pages with ads and flash was *more* efficient and less demanding on the CPU than Firefox processing pages with no ads at all.
That comes to me as quite a shock, given that Flash is, in fact, a pig.
