Comment Oblig. Xkcd: Extrapolating (Score 2) 53
And then by 2023 we will be consuming 25 hours of media per day.
Samsung Creates Phone With Curved Display 219
iONiUM writes "Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy Round phone with a curved 5.7" display. It comes with a hefty $1,000 USD price tag. This is a follow-up to the 55" curved TVs it began selling in June, and is most likely an intermediate form in the development of fold-able phones. Considering the recent LG announcement of mass OLED flexible screen production, it seems we are getting close to flexible phones. One question I wonder: will Apple follow suit? So far there has been no indication they are even attempting flexible/bendable screens."
Info Leak Wars To Get Messier 350
jfruh writes "As we discussed this weekend, David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, was detained while transporting encrypted data on the Snowden affair from Berlin; all his electronics were seized. Over at the Guardian offices, British police destroyed more of the newspaper's hard drives. Privacy blogger Dan Tynan sees where this one is going: reporters like Greenwald are going to stop even bothering to be circumspect with their revelations. Sorting through the contents of such infocaches to redact sensitive information just gives the government time to track you down. Eventually, the information will just be dumped online, warts and all, as soon as someone who wants the information public gets ahold of it."
Comment Obviously Youtube (Score 5, Insightful) 84
Since they are including Youtube as part of this traffic, I can see why it would be such a high percentage. Nearly every other Google service is pretty low bandwidth, but many people, including myself, now use Youtube as a replacement for TV. So I'm not suprised by this statistic at all.
Comment Re:How t f (Score 1) 601
That's a good question... it must have been Ancient Aliens that helped her, obviously.
Comment Well played Sony (Score 1) 509
As a user of Xbox for the last 12 years, I can't back up Microsoft on this one. They really blew it. I might have to pick up a Sony product for the first time ever.
Though it doesn't really mean much cause in the end I prefer PC gaming over either...
Comment Re:Summary? (Score 1) 179
Agreed, absolutely terrible summary, no context whatsoever. It's almost like they just copied and pasted a random paragraph from the article without even checking to see that it makes sense by itself. (which it doesn't)
Comment Re:Indy Games (Score 1) 236
But if it was made by Lucasarts it wouldn't be indie... oh I see what you did there...
Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style 36
iDuck writes "Damien George, of Cambridge University, has created a 3D visualization of the latest data from the Planck mission. Using WebGL, it lets you spin and zoom a 3D model of the Cosmic Microwave Background, and select different wavelength bands."
Comment Re:Must be Wednesday (Score 4, Informative) 237
"Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer heliosphere, all but vanished, dropping to less than 1 percent of previous amounts. At the same time, galactic cosmic rays – cosmic radiation from outside of the solar system – spiked to levels not seen since Voyager's launch, with intensities as much as twice previous levels."
You're welcome.
Comment Re:Online, offline - is it even fun? (Score 1) 303
In my opinion yes. All the DRM and server issues aside, I really enjoy playing the game itself. The servers are much much more stable now than on launch day, and I have no problems connecting anymore. If you look past the terrible DRM there is actually some fun gameplay to be found, which is sad because it will always be overshadowed by this scandal.
I think if someone comes out with a private server for this game it will make it one of the best Simcity games I've played.
Comment Re:I wish I had pirated it lol (Score 1) 511
This.
As far as I can tell the only thing the server manages is storing your save data, hosting multiple city interactions, and adjusting the "global market" prices for oil and such. If the server did all the game logic calculations then I wouldn't have been able to play for 10 minutes straight after disconnecting. They are doing a very minimal amount of number crunching, and I suspect that's why they felt overconfident in their system and didn't think they would need that many servers.
Comment Re:Confusion (Score 2) 403
Yes I have a friend who was convinced the Wii U was a tablet upgrade for the existing Wii, he didn't even realize it was a new console. Their problem is not marketing the CONSOLE itself, instead they focused way too much on the gimmicky tablet controller. People aren't even aware that the Wii U is running on much better hardware and the games can actually run higher than 480p now.
Comment Re:Lack of games... (Score 1) 403
Exactly, I'd consider buying a Wii U if it had anything worth playing... Currently the only games they have are disappointing first party games, and third party ports from Xbox 360 and PS3 that the Wii didn't have the horsepower to run, and now Nintendo is finally getting these games years later.
The upcoming new Zelda game that was vaguely announced is the only thing on the horizon that I could see saving the Wii U. They seem to be putting all their chips into the 3DS right now and are very tight lipped about what games they are making for Wii U, if any.
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