Comment Skip the Moon too..Mars and Beyond. (Score 1, Interesting) 191
Just gear up and go to Mars, better yet concentrate and figuring out how to build the Fastest damn spaceship possible, something that can reach
Comment This is why all games should self host (Score 1) 290
Its fine for the maker to host the main servers and all, but really the door should be open for users to do thier own hosting.
Comment Underpowered, Overpriced, and lacking apps... (Score 1) 375
...not backwards compatible with even current gen applications for Windows. The built in version of office isn't really fully baked yet by Microsoft's own admission. Not really properly supported for enterprise use yet. Surface Pro which will suck too, but at least have some measure of backward compatiblity and enterprise support will launch soon.
I can't for the life of me understand why its struggling.
Microsoft blew this one hard.
Comment Roomba = Junk (Score 1) 92
My only comment, Spent the money on the Roomba and the Scooba within 18 months both were completely dead.
The Roomba lost its mind and no amount of fiddling could get it back.
The Scooba was replaced 3 times due to a design flaw that iRobot refused to admit to, but is well documented on the web.
Comment I love it...that got Many PI.... (Score 1) 147
....I can't even get one! I've been in the Queue since before initial release and still have yet to receieve mine, and even got an email two weeks ago about further delays!
Still a really great accomplishement though.
Comment With Leaps Like this SSD continues to fall behind (Score 1) 224
Don't get me wrong I love my SSD drives, but that tech needs to to start finding some way to move forward at a faster and a better $/GB..I guess its $/TB now
Comment Re:It doesn't work that way unfortunately (Score 1) 969
Yes actually it is one of the tenents of a socialistic society.
Comment It doesn't work that way unfortunately (Score 1, Informative) 969
"For every four Americans working a 50-hour week, every week, there's one American who should have a full-time job, but doesn't."
Unfortunately this isn't reality. Its not just the FTE and the Salary for said person, but the benefits package, bonuses, physical space, equipment (blue or white collar), and a host of various other things of the sort that an employeer has to take on the books. Add it all up and its often cheaper for the employeer to expect 4 people to work overtime. Please don't come back with the "well if the other four accept a little less benefits, etc...to allow for the fifth" arguement. Personally not interested in socialism.
Comment Re:Hugh Laurie (Score 1) 357
Thats might qactually be interesting to see....I could buy him as the Doctor.
The biggest problem, is if they screw with the known rules of the Dr Who universe, and what happens with the TV series in all of this?
Comment Microsoft's Mistake not promoting Ray Ozzie (Score 2) 337
This was the man that should have taken the reigns of Microsoft by now. Instead he has left the company. He was a worthy successor to Gates in drive and vision.
Comment Not the Conclusion and NOT done (Score 1) 279
The last book is "The Winds of Winter" if I remember correctly. Also it ain't done yet...he indicated yesterday its close, BUT it ain;t done yet...however he and the publisher have announced a street date based on the fact its ALMOST done.
Comment United States Government in action (Score 1) 853
Government for the corporations, by the corporations. We might as well change the constitution....
"We the Corporations of the United States of America, in order to best subjugate, and bleed the masses...."
Comment Groan, SCIFI channel is clueless (Score 2) 762
I refuse to use that other stupid name.
The Series had a highs and lows, I think the thing that killed it was to much character development, not enough conflict and exploration. Its a show about going to some unknown place, but they have never gotten anywhere. And for Christ sake, turn the DAMN lights on! The Ancients could build Atlantis and the Destiny, but they couldn't equip the ship with a decent f**ing light bulb.
Submission + - BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years (thinq.co.uk) 2
Stoobalou writes: MSI says that it's planning a big shift towards UEFI at the end of 2010, possibly spelling the end of the BIOS as we know it.
It's the one major part of the computer that's still reminiscent of the PC's primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly-clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it's now making a big shift towards point and click UEFI systems, and it's all going to kick off at the end of this year.
Speaking to Thinq, a spokesperson for the company in Taiwan who wished to remain anonymous said that "MSI will start to phase in UEFI starting from the end of this year, and we expect it will be widely adopted after three years."
It's the one major part of the computer that's still reminiscent of the PC's primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly-clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it's now making a big shift towards point and click UEFI systems, and it's all going to kick off at the end of this year.
Speaking to Thinq, a spokesperson for the company in Taiwan who wished to remain anonymous said that "MSI will start to phase in UEFI starting from the end of this year, and we expect it will be widely adopted after three years."
Comment Going to take a little more than that (Score 2, Insightful) 76
Adobe patches are crap in general.
1. They usually take the form of nearly complete product updates, patches 80% of the size of the installed product are common.
2. They currently only rarely issue roll-ups so you end up in the you have to have 9.3.1 base, then install 9.3.2 patch , then install 9.3.3 patch can't jump from 9.3.1 directly to 9.3.3
This sort of stuff drives the guy at my company in change of Adobe software deployments insane. For a new machine install it takes forever as each individual patch is installed by the software deployment system.
