Comment Re:AppleTV? (Score 1) 579
What happens to the functionality of my first generation Apple TV?
I mean.. we've bought a ton of shows for the kids to watch -- I can only assume that we won't lose the ability to play those. Bad assumption?
Comment IPV6 on Vista crashes some older home routers (Score 2, Insightful) 425
I've seen a number of situations where the DHCP servers on older home routers or the entire router itself will crash if you have IPv6 enabled on Windows Vista. It appears that the DHCP servers on some older home routers freak-out when IPv6 clients make DHCP requests to them.
Before turning it on on your home LAN, make sure that your older home routers can handle it.
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Ardiri challenged himself to port his classic PalmOS version of Lemmings to the iPhone, Palm Pre, Mac, and Windows. The porting was done using his own dev environment, which creates native C versions of the game. He liveblogged the whole thing, and finished after only 36 hours with an iPhone version and a Palm Pre version awaiting submission, and free versions for Windows and Mac available on his site."
Comment Re:"Satellite"? (Score 1) 109
Looks more like a mini space shuttle to me.
Maybe it collects defunct satellites and brings them back for repair..
Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession 185
Bulgarian Dimitar Kerin won't have to decide if he should tend his crops or pay attention to Plovdiv City Council business anymore. The committee voted him off 20-19, saying that he obviously "needs more time for his virtual farm." From the article: "Kerin was not alone in his obsession among council members. Council chairman Ilko Iliev had previously warned several of them that the new wireless network and laptops provided to all 51 council members were not to be used for playing games on social media sites during budget meetings. Kerin was singled out for continuing to manage his farm and milk his cows despite Iliev's warnings. "
Facebook Kills Dataset of Crawled Public Profiles 158
holy_calamity writes "Internet entrepreneur Pete Warden wrote a crawler that collated the public profiles of 210 million Facebook profiles and was set to release an anonymised version to researchers. The pages crawled can be read by any web user, and the robots.txt did not forbid crawling. However, Facebook claimed he had violated its terms of service and threatened legal action. Fearing costs, Warden has now destroyed his dataset. For a snapshot of the insights that data could have allowed, see Warden's post on how the friend networks of the 120 million US users in his data segregated into seven clusters." Of course, if he had it, this means anyone who wants it made their own version of this.
Lawmakers Ask For FTC Investigation of Google Buzz 131
angry tapir writes "Eleven US lawmakers have asked the FTC to investigate Google's launch of its Buzz social-networking product for breaches of consumer privacy. The representatives — six Democrats and five Republicans from the House Energy and Commerce Committee — noted in their letter that Google's roll-out of Buzz exposed private information of users to Google's Gmail service to outsiders. In one case, a 9-year-old girl accidentally shared her contact list in Gmail with a person who has a 'sexually charged' username, the lawmakers said in the letter."
Comment Re:What's With the Windows icon??! (Score 1) 355
I too hate Windows 7, but for me it is the deplorable "HomeGroup" networking feature that appears to be the 2009 version of "DOS aint done until 1-2-3 won't run". Specifically, non-Microsoft operating systems (and some older Microsoft operating systems) are no longer able to automatically detect Windows 7 shares on a LAN like has been available in Windows XP. From what I've read, this was a "feature" of Vista, but I never touched that Vista to know if that is the case or not. "HomeGroup" is just another cat and mouse game by Microsoft.
Comment Re:I'm old enough to remember... (Score 1) 355
I seem to remember a Windows 3.1.1 release that added some "Windows for Workgroups" updates to Windows 3.1.
Do I remember correctly?
Comment I don't know about you... (Score 1) 503
.. but when I see someone in a coffee shop hunched over their little netbook I kind of feel bad for them.
I find myself thinking, "Awww.... poor guy. His back, eyes, and fingers must be killing him right now"
It looks really uncomfortable.
From the admittedly limited exposure to the iPad that I've had so far, it seems to be a much more comfortable experience.
Comment Re:Loose the (almost) dead weight (Score 1) 440
2.5 years is less than the maximum length of the Applecare warranty. So you're not going to support the major OS release that came with a computer that's still under warranty?
You missed the point.
He said that Leopard came out 2.5 years ago. Leopard still supports G3 Macs and is still suported.
Tiger users have had 2.5 years to migrate from Tiger to Leopard.
It's Snow Leopard that doesn't run on G3 Macs. Leopard does.
Comment Re:Scientific? (Score 1) 536
That's why the y-chromosome is for, since it is passed on from father to sons essentially unchanged as well -- true -- it is not as resistant to change as mitochondrial DNA, but Y-DNA is excellent for tracing male lineage.
Comment Chewy... (Score 2, Funny) 172
... I've got a bad feeling about this.
Comment it sounds like a win-win for us... until (Score 0, Flamebait) 88
it turns out that nanotube technology causes cancer on a hugemongous scale and it wipes out the human race.
Comment Re:"dumb down?" (Score 1) 276
Which allow a right click, (enabled by default IIRC) by having two fingers on the trackpad while clicking.
Actually, in Leopard and Snow Leopard, the two finger click for right-mouse click is not on by default.
You have to enable it in System Preferences.
