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Comment Re:Oh rats (Score 3, Informative) 166

by pjbass on Saturday December 05, 2009 @08:02AM (#30334206) Attached to: Intel Kills Consumer Larrabee Plans

Don't forget about the NVidia Ion platforms. They also use a "just-enough" CPU in Intel's Atom, with higher end NVidia GPUs to run nicely integrated HD set-top boxes. Nice little platforms for MythTV frontends.

Comment Re:Oh rats (Score 1) 166

by pjbass on Saturday December 05, 2009 @07:50AM (#30334160) Attached to: Intel Kills Consumer Larrabee Plans

I don't play games on my laptop, but I do run compiz-fusion with many of the features enabled. It's very eye-candy-heavy, and my integrated Intel graphics chip keeps up just fine. My CPUs don't bear much load at all. I don't think things are as grossly out of proportion as you make them out to be. 5 years ago, yes. Today, not so much.

Submission + - FSF may ban Novel from selling Linux

Submitted by

abcxyz

on Monday February 05, 2007 @03:01PM

abcxyz writes: "The Free Software Foundation is reviewing Novell's right to sell new versions of Linux. Eben Moglen, the Foundation's general counsel, said the board has not made a decision on the matter but that he expects it to announce a ruling within two weeks."

Submission + - Why Craigslist won't run ads

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Monday February 05, 2007 @02:56PM

prostoalex writes: "USA Today interviews Jim Buckmaster, CEO of popular online classifieds site CraigsList. The company currently has 23 employees, never paid a single dime to advertise itself, but nevertheless is 9th most popular Web site in the US (USA Today quotes Alexa). Viewed as a major factor in declining newspaper subscriptions, CraigsList has this to say: "On the charge of "stealing" ads from newspapers, Buckmaster remains quietly unapologetic. The big newspaper chains continue to be about twice as profitable as the average American business, he says, "so it's not as though they're hurting." Newspapers have become "beholden to Wall Street," he says. "The primary focus is not necessarily on journalism; it's on maximizing revenue.""

Submission + - Beryl 0.2.0 - New and Improved

Submitted by

Sanford

on Monday February 05, 2007 @02:42PM

Sanford writes: "http://lunapark6.com/?p=2916 Fascinating overview of the latest 3D window manager from Beryl. Article explains how to control some of the many amazing features that are in Beryl 0.2.0. There are also plenty of screenshots to give readers an idea on what these settings do."

Submission + - Flying car by 2010

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05, 2007 @11:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: Rafi Yoeli hopes to see a marketable version of his X-Hawk flying car by 2010. But when will the Pitbull hoverboard be available?

Submission + - German Court Bans Police Use of Spyware

Submitted by narramissic on Monday February 05, 2007 @10:59AM

narramissic writes: In a landmark decision, Germany's High Court has struck a blow to the plans of German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to give the Federal Criminal Police Office greater power to monitor terrorists and other criminals online, arguing that 'searching computers is similar to searching homes, a practice in Germany that requires police to follow certain procedures, such as obtaining a search warrant and informing suspected offenders of a search.'

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