Comment Re:Why our infrastructure is vulnerable (Score 1) 368
He probably just hadn't made up as cool of a term for it as you did.
Comment Re:Monopolies (Score 1) 161
Comcast is perfectly capable of the above, in fact, I'd say they excel at it. Unfortunately, I no longer use their service, so I have to deal with more uptime and a faster connection, but hey, sometimes you just have to take one for the team.
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 4, Funny) 102
That's not a good comparison, as the Game Boy Advance was wildly different in capabilities from the Game Boy Color. Meanwhile the DS, DS Lite and DSi are essentially the same system.
So it's true - Nintendo is developing better business sense with time!
Apple Shifts iTunes Pricing; $0.69 Tracks MIA 429
Hodejo1 writes "Steve Jobs vowed weeks ago that when iTunes shifted to a tiered price structure in April, older tracks priced at $0.69 would outnumber the contemporary hits that are rising to $1.29. Today, several weeks later, iTunes made the transition. While the $1.29 tracks are immediately visible, locating cheaper tracks is proving to be an exercise in futility. With the exception of 48 songs that Apple has placed on the iTunes main page, $0.69 downloads are a scarce commodity. MP3 Newswire tried to methodically drill down to unearth more of them only to find: 1) A download like Heart's 34-year-old song Barracuda went up to $1.29, not down. 2) Obscure '90s Brit pop and '50s rockabilly artists — those most likely to benefit from a price drop — remained at $0.99. 3) Collected tracks from a cross-section of 1920s, '30s, and '40s artists all remained at $0.99. Finally, MP3 Newswire called up tracks in the public domain from an artist named Ada Jones who first recorded in 1893 on Edison cylinder technology. The price on all of the century-old, public-domain tracks remained at $0.99. (The same tracks are available for free on archive.org.) The scarcity of lower-priced tracks may reflect the fact that the labels themselves decide which price tier they want to pursue for a given artist; and they are mostly ignoring the lower tier. Meanwhile, Amazon's UK site has decided to counter-promote their service by dropping prices on select tracks to 29 pence ($0.42)."
Comment Re:Bad Science (Score 3, Funny) 485
Just because your iMac G3 couldn't run 10.4 doesn't exactly make it a "Tiger Repelling Rock"
Comment Re:End of an era (Score 1) 196
So that is where the term "EPIC FAIL" comes from...
Indeed, I've heard it used with Itanic more than a few times.
Comment Is there a gas leak in here? (Score 3, Insightful) 1147
I wouldn't take Vista for free but I happily paid a $500 'logo tax'
Why can't people just prefer apple, and not be fanatical about it? Oh, right, because then that wouldn't justify the increased expense.
Personally I like the hardware and design of the MacBook Pro, the software is nice too, but for me it's not worth the extra coin.
Comment Not that he's far off the mark, but... (Score 5, Funny) 1147
Jealousy is a stinky cologne, Stevie. ;)
Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo 1147
theodp writes "Speaking at a conference in NYC, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did his best to refan the flames of the Mac vs. PC rivalry: 'Now I think the tide has really turned back the other direction [against Apple],' Ballmer said. 'The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment — same piece of hardware — paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be.'"
Obama Administration Promises "Thorough Review" of USTR Policies 78
After all of the uproar surrounding some of the Obama administration's recent decisions, trade officials have promised a thorough review of the USTR policies regarding transparency. In an effort to ensure that the review includes all possible angles, the USTR is urging groups to make other proposals as well. "KEI is very impressed with the USTR decision to undertake a review of USTR transparency efforts. They are taking this much further than simply reviewing policies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or recent controversies over the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations. The review offers the possibility of more transformative changes, including pro-active measures to enhance transparency, covering all aspects of USTR operations, including multilateral, plurilateral, regional, bilateral and unilateral trade policies and negotiations. We are also grateful that USTR is offering to have a continuing dialogue on this issues. KEI will offer additional suggestions on transparency to USTR, and we encourage others to do so also."
Comment Re:Room Temperature!! (Score 1) 71
With how much they cost, those cables should already have this tech.
Comment Re:But March 14th is already taken! (Score 4, Interesting) 321
I thought that was fish taco and blowjob day.
Comment Re:crazy (Score 1) 496
why replace it when the only thing that has changed are my expectations of what a piece of software should do?
Says the dude with "I only code in BASIC" in his sig.
Comment SI Units (Score 5, Funny) 255
And eight of those would be a ribbyte?
I shudder at the thought of kibiribbits.
New Success For Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm 81
An anonymous reader writes "A number of amputees are now using a prosthetic arm that moves intuitively, when they think about moving their missing limb. Todd Kuiken and colleagues at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago surgically rearrange the nerves that normally connect to the lost limb and embed them in muscles in the chest. The muscles are then connected to sensors that translate muscle movements into movement in a robotic arm. The researchers first reported the technique in a single patient in 2007, and have now tested it in several more. The patients could all successfully move the arm in space, mimic hand motions, and pick up a variety of objects, including a water glass, a delicate cracker, and a checker rolling across a table. (Three patients are shown using the arm in the related video.) The findings are reported today in Journal of the American Medical Association."
