Comment Re:Paul Christoforo's LinkedIn Page (Score 1) 419
BCI check, anyone?
Comment Re:In other words.... (Score 1) 445
Whenever I crack open a machine with a failed drive, I play a little game called "WD or not WD?". I'll look at the box, and guess based on the brand....7 times out of 10 I guess WD, and I'm almost always right.....they seem to be huge in the OEM market, so just by sheer volume you would tend to see more failed ones because that's what mfr's use. But having said that, I would still not trust any modern drive without a good backup solution, or RAID..
Comment Available now for ordering on the VZW website... (Score 1) 123
...with free overnight delivery, if anyone is interested. I want to go play with one before I make a final decision, but for the impatient ones that can't get to a store, there ya go.
Comment Re:Military using common GPS? (Score 2) 647
My understanding is that the only difference between military and civilian GPS is the accuracy. From gps.gov (take with a grain of salt, of course) "... military users can perform ionospheric correction, a technique that reduces radio degradation caused by the Earth's atmosphere. With less degradation, PPS provides better accuracy than the basic SPS."
Comment Re:Most drives live only a couple of years for me (Score 1) 272
I am reminded of the old adage: "There are two kinds of hard drives in the world: those that have failed, and those that will".
Comment Re:Quit (Score 2) 424
As someone who has inherited a bowl of spaghetti more than once in his day, I can say definitively that it's all driven by upper management/ownership. You're given a limited set of tools and an even smaller budget to make sure everything not only runs, but runs at peak efficiency. Then, add in incompetent end-users that are allowed, nay, ENCOURAGED to build undocumented, unstructured and barely maintainable "applications", and you're in for some real fun.
Comment Re:This is why I will never trust cloud services (Score 4, Insightful) 388
Sure, in the same field I can understand, I do that too....I just don't want to know that the lazy sales guy down the hall makes double what I do for taking a few phone calls. Even though I already know intuitively, and by the fact his car cost half as much as my house.
Comment Re:What about frame rates? (Score 1) 422
I find most actions scenes "shot" today to be blurry, choppy, impossible to follow messes.
Comment Re:This is why I will never trust cloud services (Score 5, Funny) 388
Nor do I, it would probably just piss me off anyway.
Comment Re:The purpose of a class action (Score 1) 140
This is one instance where I don't really care that the lawyers are cleaning up, because it's at TM's expense.
Comment Re:Neuromancer (Score 1) 96
In addition to those old classics, there's the modern-day "Hacker Evolution" series from exosyphen, which are also pretty well done. Uplink is the only game in this bundle I don't already have, so I'm on the fence about purchasing.
Submission + - Jetman Flies In Formation With Jets (gizmag.com)
smitty777 writes: Slashdot has been following Yves Rossy in his previous exploits across the Grand Canyon and his attempts at international flight. He is now flying in formations with real jets. He even does a barrel roll around the two fighters in this video.
Submission + - America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants like Apple
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Optimists says that if only America produced more companies like Apple and Amazon and Google and Facebook, the country's problems would be fixed — America could retrain its vast, idle construction-and-manufacturing workforce, and our unemployment and inequality problems would be solved. But Apple's $1 billion new data center in North Carolina has been a disappointing development for many residents, who can’t comprehend how expensive facilities stretching across hundreds of acres can create only 50 new jobs, especially after thousands of positions in the region have been lost to cheaper foreign competition. In fact, Apple actually exemplifies some of the reasons why the US has such huge unemployment and inequality problems: Digital" businesses like Apple employ far fewer people than traditional manufacturing businesses, Apple's 60,000+ jobs are not just in the US — they're spread around the world, and Apple's extraordinary ~25% profit margin means that the benefits of its success accrue primarily to a relatively small group of rich shareholders rather than a broad base of middle-class employees. Companies like Apple "create amazing products and vast shareholder wealth, but they don't spread this wealth around as much as earlier industrial giants did," writes Henry Blodget. "So, yes, we should celebrate the success of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. But we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking they're going to solve our unemployment or inequality problems.""
Submission + - Microsoft Working on Kinect 2 (itworld.com)
itwbennett writes: "Eurogamer published a piece on a rumored Kinect 2 system that will most likely launch with the next iteration of the Xbox line, which might be sometime between late 2012 and 2014. Eurogamer says this new Kinect won't be hobbled by the limitations of the USB 2.0 port that the current Kinect uses; instead the hardware will be designed to give the new Kinect a faster pipeline to the system's internals. What this means, says blogger Peter Smith is that 'not only can Kinect 2 read finger movements (high on the wish-list for the current hardware) but it can read lips, too. I don't think they mean this in the sense that it can extrapolate what you're saying from your lip movements, but that it can tell who in a room is speaking by matching lip movement to audio input.'"
Comment Re:Quelle surprise (Score 1) 325
Actually, they only wrote ONE Skinner box. The unique UI that defines each "game" is the primary differentiating factor.
