Submission + - XBOX failure draining money from Microsoft
Big Nothing writes: "The various technical difficulties with the XBOX 360 has previously been covered here on slashdot. Now various news sources are reporting that the repair costs for Microsoft are going to be a whopping $1bn. Microsoft will extend the warranty to cover repairs related to the "red lights of death" problem up to three years after purchase."
Submission + - PDAs: The Death of Marital Sex
zyl0x writes: Forbes.com has an article online detailing the PDA industry's detrimental effect on married couple's sex lives. The article quotes a clinical psychologist who has coined the term "DINS couples" (double income, no sex), and explains how constant office connectivity can destroy what little chance us IT-types have with our wives. From the aritcle:
"...employees in contact with work outside of normal work hours are more often highly overworked than those with little or no contact. What does this mean for constantly connected couples? According to therapists and psychologists, around-the-clock access to the office often results in fatigue, a lack of intimacy, resentment, increased conflict and even premature career burnout."
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe these Black- and Blueberries are the ultimate cause?
"...employees in contact with work outside of normal work hours are more often highly overworked than those with little or no contact. What does this mean for constantly connected couples? According to therapists and psychologists, around-the-clock access to the office often results in fatigue, a lack of intimacy, resentment, increased conflict and even premature career burnout."
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe these Black- and Blueberries are the ultimate cause?
Submission + - Microsoft Expression Web - Is it All that?
erica_ann writes: "I am a Dreamweaver lover and die-hard fan. When I hear / see a website was made with Front Page, I cringe and shrudder. I have spent too many sleepless nights correcting the mangled code from Front Page so it would be cross-browser complaint as well as W3C and even CSS compliant — not to mention meet accessibility standards.
Now, I read that Microsoft has dropped Front Page and is now touting Microsoft Expression Web. From what I have read, it seems to be one of the few (or the only one) WYSIWYG editor that lets you drag and drop — say even an image — and creates a CSS style for it... not using HTML to place it.
I have also seen that it will not work with PHP — which is one of the reasons I love Dreamweaver so much — since it will.
Supposedly the new Microsoft Expression Web will be a rival for Dreamweaver and other top name Editors.. but can Microsoft really make a comeback from Front Page? I plan on downloading it and trying the trial out — but you have to uninstall the Office trail first which I am still crunching through to do a review on.
Have any ./ readers tried out the new Microsoft Expression Web? Is the code produced really that much better than the older Front Page? I would like to hear what others who have tried this have to say about it."
Now, I read that Microsoft has dropped Front Page and is now touting Microsoft Expression Web. From what I have read, it seems to be one of the few (or the only one) WYSIWYG editor that lets you drag and drop — say even an image — and creates a CSS style for it... not using HTML to place it.
I have also seen that it will not work with PHP — which is one of the reasons I love Dreamweaver so much — since it will.
Supposedly the new Microsoft Expression Web will be a rival for Dreamweaver and other top name Editors.. but can Microsoft really make a comeback from Front Page? I plan on downloading it and trying the trial out — but you have to uninstall the Office trail first which I am still crunching through to do a review on.
Have any
Submission + - Google killed the radio star
LoIP writes: "Sex blogs that have been demoted to lower Google ranking have been in the news recently. But other sites happen to disappear from Google's database altogether. For example, the popular and serious website for radio hobbyists DXing.info. The site has hundreds of pages of good information for that group; has no spam/splog/optimization/other practices that may make it look suspicious; is non-profit (carries no ads); has alot of inbound links, and shows up among the top results on all search engines — but no longer on Google. It has been for years top-three on Google for "DXing" and first-page for other relevant keywords, and had a pagerank of 6 (highest in the world of DXing websites) but something happened around November that wiped it out of the G database. Today even searching for "dxing.info" doesn't turn it up (while sites linking to it do). Why doesn't Google like it anymore? Mystery.
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/01/google_killed_t .html"
Submission + - Bill Moyers on Net Neutrality and Media Reform
Sandburger writes: Bill Moyers gave an inspired and inspiring opening speech at the National Conference for Media Reform this past weekend. After discussing the "plantation mentality" that keeps moneyed media in charge of political thought and debate, he warns of the threat to freedom and democracy posed by corporate interests determined to exploit the internet.
Alternet (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/46684/) has links to YouTube videos. The conference site (http://www.freepress.net/conference/) has additional links to QT video and audio.
Alternet (http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/46684/) has links to YouTube videos. The conference site (http://www.freepress.net/conference/) has additional links to QT video and audio.
Submission + - Blogger.com comments: open to abuse
Tim Ireland writes: "Blogger.com allows you to comment posing as another user:
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/01/blogg er_sockpuppets.asp
If someone has their comments set at 'Anyone' (as most comment-hungry bloggers do), the system allows you to pose as any user of Blogger, providing that you know their Blogger name and the location of their profile. Try as I might, I can't think of another major community-based website that allows non-members to pose as members within their own system."
http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2007/01/blog
If someone has their comments set at 'Anyone' (as most comment-hungry bloggers do), the system allows you to pose as any user of Blogger, providing that you know their Blogger name and the location of their profile. Try as I might, I can't think of another major community-based website that allows non-members to pose as members within their own system."
Submission + - 10 advanded RSS tricks
Stan Schroeder writes: "By using so called "RSS Mixers", applications that let you blend several RSS feeds into one, it's possible to achieve some interesting results. These ten RSS tricks include creating your own self-maintained community site, tracking new versions of your favourite software, and monitoring the results of a Google or Yahoo search."
Submission + - How the RIAA is like 17th century button makers
An anonymous reader writes: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070110/004225.s html
Submission + - HP's Advance Breathes New Life into Moore's Law
silentounce writes: Scientific American and other sources report that "researchers at Hewlett-Packard Co. have devised a way to make a specialized type of computer chip up to eight times denser using nanotechnology, in a development that could extend the life of current chipmaking technologies." They call the new technology a "field programmable nanowire interconnect (FPNI)". They've created a switch that can route info more efficiently inside a FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array), a specific kind of chip. "We essentially provided a recipe to improve the circuitry of FPGA's by the equivalent of three generations of Moore's law without having to shrink the transistor," says Stan Williams, a senior fellow and director of quantum science research at HP's research laboratory.
Submission + - PDAs: The Downfall Of Marital Sex
zyl0x writes: Forbes.com has a story online about the "Crackberry" generation of IT and how constant, wireless connectivity negatively affects our lives, in particular, our sex lives. The article quotes a clinical psychologist who has coined the phrase "DINS couples" (double income, no sex), and goes into details of how mobile devices and too much office responsibility may be damaging our sex lives.
From the article:
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe our Black- and Blueberrys are the ultimate cause?
From the article:
"What does this mean for constantly connected couples? According to therapists and psychologists, around-the-clock access to the office often results in fatigue, a lack of intimacy, resentment, increased conflict and even premature career burnout. All of which are enough to crater a less-than-solid marriage or relationship."
Not that many of us have a sex life to lose, but maybe our Black- and Blueberrys are the ultimate cause?
Journal Journal: TurboTax Online supports Free Software (Sorta)
For the first year ever, TurboTax Online and TurboTax Free File Alliance, the popular online tax filing software, not only officially support using FireFox to file your taxes, but also allow Linux users to log in without having to resort to user agent switching.
Submission + - EU report endorses Open Source
erik_norgaard writes: A report (PDF) released by the EU commission concludes that in almost all cases savings would be made by switching to Open Source, reports ZDNet.co.uk. The conclusion is based on detailed analysis of open source projects in six EU countries.
Submission + - Microsoft counts the $$$ with downloadable content
An anonymous reader writes: A new report estimates that Microsoft could see revenue from TV and movie sales via Xbox Live of $726 million.
http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/16-01-2007-4509.html
Submission + - Super Columbine RPG!
An anonymous reader writes: While Super Columbine Massacre RPG! getting booted from the Slamdance Festival has been well documented here and elsewhere, Julian Murdoch at GamersWithJobs has an interesting take on the game itself, having actually played it:
Worth a read."The premise of this fact-as-fiction construction — that you must do something horrifying in order to advance the story — is no more original than Grand Theft Auto. The difference is that when shoot someone in the face with a sawed-off shotgun in GTA, it's pretend. When you do it in Columbine, you're reenacting. Of course, I have no problem playing Defcon in the face of Hiroshima, or playing the Germans in a game of Battlefield 1942. But this pixelated and pixilated nebbish of a game crosses some internal line where it's not OK. This juxtaposition is in and of itself disturbing."
