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Yet another Anonymous Coward writes:
"It Isn't That Images Fade, It's That They Can Vanish"
From the article:
The life of color inkjet prints has also been hindered by the origins of the technology, which was mainly intended for printing things like pie charts, said Nils Miller, a scientist at Hewlett-Packard. "The initial emphasis was, how do we get bright colors on plain paper," Dr. Miller said. "Permanence was not really on the radar screen yet."
187791
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scitex writes:
Sales figures of the three main consoles in the time of writing this post were the following: Xbox 360 11 Millions, Wii 7.5 Millions and PS3 3 Millions. Obviously, taking into account market entry dates, Wii holds the bestselling position. If performance is not what drive these sales, what is? Is it the price, the games, the innovative controller, or a combination of these? In my opinion, the main driving force was the controller. But what puzzles me is why PC developers never came up with an innovative controller since it obviously pays off. In an attempt to find a controller that is inovative and PC-authentic the only thing I was able to find is a yet unreleased pinball game in which you can slam a region of your keyboard instead of pressing a single button (cool video with destroyed keyboard can be found here). Dare to smash expensive Wii controllers like those cheap keyboards? Will the Microsoft's rumored multi touch interface try to change this?
187781
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maximus1 writes:
Google's Anti-Malware research reports that web sites running Microsoft Corp.'s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicious code as other Web sites. Geographically speaking, the survey also found that the malware server of choice varied from region to region. In China and South Korea, for example, the majority of malicious Web sites are running IIS. In the U.S., Russia, and Germany, however, Apache is the predominant malware server. The reason? A Google rep speculated that the servers in China and South Korea may be running pirated software and unable to get Microsoft's latest security updates.
