Comment Re:sick of windows at work (Score 1) 251
corporate pcs are typically rather locked down
Comment Re:Not that I care anyway. (Score 1) 373
Yeah their tech support guys strongly suggested they would charge me if I sent my hard discs back under warranty so I said screw them and have avoided them since. If they are not getting into the ssd market proper it suits me as I'll mainly only buy SSDs from now on.
Comment sick of windows at work (Score 3, Interesting) 251
Is the fundamental issue that people are sick of using shitty computers with shitty locked down versions of windows all day at work, so they don't want more of the same bullshit for their personal devices?
Comment Re:How many entities? (Score 1) 296
Many of those players would have had 5 drones (mini robot spaceships) so that's potentially 24000 moving entities.
Comment Re:This story sounds familiar (Score 2) 296
It is simulating a few more objects than those muds though. For example, each player is likely to have 5 drones (mini robot spaceships), which takes the number of moving entities that have to be simulated up to 24000...
Submission + - GNU/Linux more popular than Windows 8 amongst Steam users (francisfisher.me.uk)
SkunkPussy writes: Windows is renowned for the slow adoption of new versions, but when it comes to gaming, Windows 8 can't even boast as many steam users as Linux does, despite Windows 8 being available for roughly twice as long as the GNU/Linux Steam client.
Comment just learn cuda? (Score 1) 198
If you are an intermediate level programmer as you say then you can easily learn to use a new programming paradigm. There is a coursera course https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero which is ok and should do for your purposes.
According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans 658
eldavojohn writes "A recent poll from the YouGov consisting of one thousand responses shows that Snowden's support among Americans has shifted. Now, according to the poll, more Americans think he did the wrong thing rather than the right thing when asked: 'Based on what you've heard, do think Snowden's leak of top-secret information about government surveillance programs to the media was the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do?' The results and breakdown are available online (PDF). Without getting into racial or political breakdowns, the results now show that 38% say he did the wrong thing, 33% say he did the right thing and 29% remain undecided about the results of his actions. Instead of charging the populace into action Snowden may be facing apathy at best and public disapproval at worst."
Comment fix bugs in VP8 please! (Score 1) 161
VP8 implementation in chrome is a bit buggy and periodically crashes a tab - I suspect it doesn't get widely used or these issues would get solved more quickly.
Comment that will help (Score 1) 95
Lets deal with protocol fragmentation by introducing another protocol.
Cerulean Studios Releases Trillian IM Protocol Specifications 95
Runefox writes "Cerulean Studios, the company behind the long-lived Trillian instant messaging client, has released preliminary specifications to their proprietary "Astra" protocol, now named IMPP (Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol), which provides continuous client functionality as well as mandatory TLS encryption for clients. According to their blog, Cerulean Studios' motivation for the release is to promote interoperability among the throngs of IM services and clients available by allowing others to also use the protocol. Future concepts include federation with XMPP. While the documentation is in an early state and the protocol is claimed to still be in development, it is hoped that it will help decentralize the very heavily fragmented messaging ecosystem. It's implied that, in turn, greater options for privacy may become available in the wake of the PRISM scandal via privately-run federated servers, unaffiliated with major networks, yet still able to communicate with them."
Comment irrelevant industry (Score 1) 73
Industry is irrelvant, if your customers are being actively exploited you are or ought to be liable if you don't fix it as fast as possible
Xbox One: Cloud Will Quadruple the Power, Says Microsoft 400
New submitter geirlk writes "Toms Hardware reports that 'Group program manager of Xbox Incubation & Prototyping Jeff Henshaw recently told OXM that for every console Microsoft builds, it will provision the CPU and storage equivalent of three Xbox One consoles in the cloud. This allows developers to assume that there's roughly three times the resources immediately available to their game. Thus, developers can build bigger, persistent levels that are more inclusive for players.'"
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
puddingebola writes "Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a piece of commentary discussing Microsoft's profit from their patent claims on Android. From the article, 'To some, Windows 8 is a marketplace failure. But its flop has been nothing compared to Microsoft's problems in getting anyone to use its Windows Phone operating systems. You don't need to worry about Microsoft's bottom line though. Thanks to its Android patent agreements, Microsoft may be making as much as $8 per Android device. This could give Microsoft as much as $3.4 billion in 2013 from Android sales.'"
Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses 91
An anonymous reader writes with news on Coursera partnering with publishers to give students access to more textbooks. From the article: "Online learning startup Coursera on Wednesday announced a partnership with Chegg, a student hub for various educational tools and materials, as well as five publishers to offer students free textbooks during their courses. Professors teaching courses on Coursera have previously only been able to assign content freely available on the Web, but as of today they will also be able to provide an even wider variety of curated teaching and learning materials at no cost to the student."
Zero cost, but not without cost: "Starting today, publishers Cengage Learning, Macmillan Higher Education,Oxford University Press SAGE, and Wiley will experiment with offering versions of their e-textbooks, delivered via Chegg’s DRM-protected e-Reader, to Coursera students. We are also actively discussing pilot agreements and related alliances with Springer and other publishers. ... The publisher content will be free and available for enrolled students for the duration of the class. If you wish to use the e-textbook before or after the course, they will be available for purchase."
