Comment List of attendees (Score -1) 268
That's quite a list of people that will be there. And which one of those is representing the people? I don't see any.
Comment Never should have been DRAFT-N products. (Score -1) 140
This is unfortunate. For so many years, I've told people not to buy anything that is "Draft" or "Pre"-N because it's not official and might change. So many products still say "Draft" or "Pre" on them that people are still not buying them because there's no official "FINAL RELEASE-N" that they see.
They may never upgrade to -N. They might just wait for whatever is next.
No, I don't feel bad for telling them that for years. If the mfgr's want to make Beta products for consumers, fine, but I'm not going to recommend them to clients. It is sad that there is a lack of communication (and back stock) of the Draft-N products that hundreds (that I've told) of people will not buy -N.
Comment Bury yourself. (Score -1) 888
Bury yourself with other content. If you cannot remove something, make other content more prominent and easier to find.
If 10 people say X about you, get 100 people to say Y about you. When someone goes looking, they are far more likely to hear Y.
Comment bullshit (Score -1) 520
"they've told me that ANY data--even one kilobyte--is billed as 1MB. The damage is done."
It's bullshit like this that keeps me from getting one. They really need to stop nickel and dimeing people with data plans. They really are way over priced. I won't get one, I know what it costs to bring data to a user and they charge way too much for it.
Comment Re:So... (Score -1) 698
Since you don't know how to slow down commenting, we'll slow it down for you.
Careful we don't just cut you off completely.
Comment the can do better, without money grubbers (Score 0, Interesting) 698
F you comcast. I pay for service, not dis-service. You can give me a faster cap, no total download limit, treat all traffic the neutrally and none of this 'throttling because you are using it' crap, for less money. Other ISP's can, time for you to cut off the top... and I mean your management.
Comment works for me! (Score -1) 1231
I've got Karmic running on 4 production machines. (Kubuntu) And on one machine I had an issue of KDE not coming up all the way, there is a bug filed and I know how to fix it should it happen again. Other than that, for me, it's been flawless.
I see it as a near perfect release.
Comment no outrage here (Score -1) 543
No outrage here. I'm looking forward to the game. Looks like it depicts real life situations where sometimes people do bad things. Video games aren't always about painting a pretty picture of how the good guys always get there before the bad guys do anything. Why not try the other side of it and see how horrible of a person you could be?
Comment MSI Nettop - Atom 330 (Score -1) 697
MSI Wind Nettop with an Intel Atom 330 dual core processor. You choose the RAM, HDD and Optical drive.
Perfect for a home server. Even SOHO, it's a great system.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-nettop-dual-core-intel,6846.html
Comment Nice idea, but written wrong. (Score -1) 188
"Network Adapter Keeps Talking While a PC Is Asleep "
Not really. It's just small pc with a network connection, can do plenty of things without the big pc, and has the ability to wake the big pc if it needs to.
In other words... this isn't news.
Comment Move them north (Score 0, Interesting) 142
I'm telling you. Save a ton on cooling costs and move north. Yea they'll be some chicken and egg type stuff, you'll need to get better infrastructure out there... but they need to stop building heat generators in a hot climate. It's just dumb.
Comment Catch 22 (Score -1) 369
I see this as a rock and a hard place for Microsoft.
On one hand, they need to get something out to replace the dirty name... Vista. Everyone knows it and hates it. It's got a lot of bad press and rightfully so. It sucks. So MS needs something to replace it as soon as possible.
On the other hand, part of the reason Vista sucked was because it was rushed out the door. Yea, how many years in development? It wasn't ready. I think the other reason was that it was too different from XP that people who had been using it kind of felt offended when this Vista came along and changed basic functions. Renamed things and made them hard to find, some people just didn't like it for that and refused it... sans it's technical deficiencies.
So, I see why MS needs to get something out fast... Vista sucks and everyone knows it. The name = bad. But at the same time, if they get it out too soon they are going to have just another Vista release. Which.... it's already starting to shape up like Vista. I've used it. I don't like it.
It's also a slap in the face to charge Vista users to upgrade to Vista SP2.
Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms 384
sciencehabit writes "Science reports that silkworms may be an ideal food source for future space missions. They breed quickly, require little space and water, and generate smaller amounts of excrement than poultry or fish. They also contain twice as many essential amino acids as pork does and four times as much as eggs and milk. Even the insect's inedible silk, which makes up 50% of the weight of the dry cocoon, could provide nutrients: The material can be rendered edible through chemical processing and can be mixed with fruit juice, sugar, and food coloring to produce jam."
Qt Becomes LGPL 828
Aequo writes "Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia, will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! It was previously only mainly available under the GPL and a commercial license. Selling licenses was an important part of Qt under Trolltech as it was the company's main source of income, but Trolltech is a fruit-fly compared to Nokia, who want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere [PDF]. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications without the need to buy a $4950 multi-platform license per developer."
Comment Not the first. (Score -1) 194
Sorry, I forget who it was, but a couple years back someone had a working 2 and 3 LCD laptop.
The 2 LCD basically had a hinge on one side of the screen and another screen would fold out.
The 3 LCD was one main one and two smaller ones that would fold out to either side.
They looked like they sucked, I'm sure they sold -5 of them.
