Comment Deep Thoughts... (Score 1) 239
What is the effect of the world's calmest music on a person whom is deaf?
Comment Re:AT&T's Response (Score 1) 301
Totally agree. Using T-Mobile because their data rate on Blackberry's is VASTLY superior to most other providers, specifically AT&T's... if the merger finally does occur, the data cost will likely double per month. That's not doing me, as a consumer in a depression, any good.
Submission + - Western Digital introduces 3TB My Book Studio (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: External hard drives are available in a number of different guises to suit an individual need. That includes drives specifically designed to not look out of place next to the aesthetics of a Mac computer or laptop.
Western Digital has designed its latest external drive specifically for that purpose. The My Book Studio is a desktop storage solution that places a Caviar Green hard drive inside a brushed aluminium casing. This combination not only makes for a gorgeous exterior, but also allowed Western Digital to leave out any fans for cooling. So it looks good and is completely silent except for the whirring drive inside.
As this is a drive mainly aimed at Mac owners you get both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Of course, it’s compatible with PCs too, but then the lack of USB 3.0 may be a deal breaker for most people. The lack of Thunderbolt may also be a let down for Mac users too.
There’s three models of the My Book Studio offering 1, 2, or 3TB of storage. Software shipped with each drive includes an automatic backup solution, password protection options, and hardware encryption. Western Digital has been shipping a 3TB My Book option since the beginning of 2010, so you can buy with confidence that they’ve got the formula right by now.
Western Digital has designed its latest external drive specifically for that purpose. The My Book Studio is a desktop storage solution that places a Caviar Green hard drive inside a brushed aluminium casing. This combination not only makes for a gorgeous exterior, but also allowed Western Digital to leave out any fans for cooling. So it looks good and is completely silent except for the whirring drive inside.
As this is a drive mainly aimed at Mac owners you get both USB 2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Of course, it’s compatible with PCs too, but then the lack of USB 3.0 may be a deal breaker for most people. The lack of Thunderbolt may also be a let down for Mac users too.
There’s three models of the My Book Studio offering 1, 2, or 3TB of storage. Software shipped with each drive includes an automatic backup solution, password protection options, and hardware encryption. Western Digital has been shipping a 3TB My Book option since the beginning of 2010, so you can buy with confidence that they’ve got the formula right by now.
Submission + - Flash Obsoleted by IBM Breakthrough in PCM (smartertechnology.com)
An anonymous reader writes: IBM claims to have refined phase change memory (PCM) to put it on track to replace flash within three years. PCMs will be 100-times faster, last 3000 times longer and achieve densities that make flash look like an antique. We've heard these claims before, but this time it looks like they've got the deep-pockets and architectural changes to make it work.
Submission + - Web Devs Optimistic Over IE10 Conditionals Demise (thinq.co.uk)
Stoobalou writes: Microsoft has announced some changes due in Internet Explorer 10 that promise to improve its HTML5 parsing with respect to other browsers, but the removal of certain features, including the death of conditional comments, is causing a stir in the web development community.
Comment Re:Cause of the illness? (Score 1) 300
I call shenanigans on the need for documentation... what's a zombie going to do? Check my driver's license before it eats my liver?
Comment Netflix still doesn't do captioning (Score 2) 333
Netflix having so many customers demonstrates a viable business model. One that has more or less destroyed the Blockbuster empire. I would have no problem with being a Netflix customer myself, except that Netflix still demonstrates they have no desire for DEAF customers. They insist on pretending that Closed Captioning is an arcane and difficult technology to implement.
So, while I applaud Netflix for their massive customer base, I do NOT welcome these Netflix overlords, because they insist on treating me as a second class citizen. Shape up, Netflix!
Comment Missing Option: I'M DEAF, YOUR IGNORANT CLOD! (Score 1) 344
I'm DEAF you ignorant clod! I only listen to music via tinnitus!
Comment Re:tb;dw (Score 1) 82
Too deaf, no caption, did not watch (TD;NC;DNW)
Comment Re:libraries (Score 1) 98
Really? For everything in that post, you focused on the Fox News comment?
To clarify: Informational Literacy means ALL SOURCES. Currently, many news sources are guilty of reporting OPINION as NEWS. Fox News is extremely fond of this. MSNBC is as well.
Thank you for playing "let's miss the point entirely"
Comment Re:libraries (Score 5, Informative) 98
As one who works in a library, my response is more than likely to be prejudiced...
Part of why we need libraries is a total failure of informational literacy. Many of the people we see today have no clue how to tell the difference between REAL and NOT REAL (hence, people who think World News Digest or Fox News are "real": they lack the skill set to determine what information has value and what does not.)
Libraries are also tremendous community and learning centers. We're really the center of democracy and freedom. We aid the local schools, the senior centers, the youth assistance groups, and provide training and access to job searching. A community without a Library is a community without a heart: it will wither, suffer and die.
Maybe one day a level of informational literacy will exist. Maybe one day it'll be taught in schools, from Pre-School through College/University. That day is not today, and not likely in this century. Modern Librarians are experts on finding information, and making sure it's good information.
Need to know more? Look up multiple resources on Informational Literacy. Just for an example: http://tln.lib.mi.us/searchpath/
Comment Obligatory (Score 3, Funny) 377
In Communist Wisconsin, government censors YOU!
Why BioWare's Star Wars MMO May Already Be Too Late 328
Since the announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic, many gamers have been hopeful that its high budget, respected development team and rich universe will be enough to provide a real challenge to the WoW juggernaut. An opinion piece at 1Up makes the case that BioWare's opportunity to do so may have already passed. Quoting:
"While EA and BioWare Austin have the horsepower needed to at least draw even with World of Warcraft though, what we've seen so far has been worryingly conventional — even generic — given the millions being poured into development. Take the opening areas around Tython, which Mike Nelson describes in his most recent preview as being 'rudimentary,' owing to their somewhat generic, grind-driven quest design. Running around killing a set number of 'Flesh Raiders' in a relatively quiet village doesn't seem particularly epic, but that's the route BioWare Austin seems to be taking with the opening areas for the Jedi — what will surely be the most popular classes when The Old Republic is released. ... the real concern, though, is not so much in the quest design as in BioWare Austin's apparent willingness to play follow the leader. Whenever something becomes a big hit — be it a movie, game or book — there's always a mad scramble to replicate the formula; in World of Warcraft's case, that mad scramble has been going for six years now. "
Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor 177
adeelarshad82 writes "According to managing director of Korean consumer electronics firm Enspert, Google's new Android Honeycomb tablet OS will require a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor to run properly. That means that many existing Android tablets will not be upgradeable to Honeycomb, as they lack the processor necessary to meet the spec. Currently, Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform is the only chipset in products on the market to include a Cortex-A9, although other manufacturers have said they're moving to the new processor architecture for 2011 products."
Comment Looking in the wrong direction (Score 2, Insightful) 338
Maybe I'm being a fool here but... they wouldn't steal copper if there weren't corrupt metal buyers out there. I mean, why the heck would a scrap yard accept X feet of copper wire if he shows up in his pickup? For all the press on this issue (and there's a lot of it here in Detroit), there's never any real discussion of fining or doing ANYTHING to discourage the metal buyers from accepting obviously stolen materials. Until such steps are taken (i.e. real penalties for accepting stolen cable, pipes, etc), then any licensing isn't going to much help, is it?
