Comment Its like gun controlq (Score 1) 377
There is a good reason to shut down these games:
People are killing other people over them!
See:
http://blog.games.com/2011/08/31/farmville-player-steals-farm-cash-stabs/
Comment Great news for AMD (Score 1) 1009
So Intel are now so smug they feel they can dictate to the market?
So Fuck Intel.
Comment Re:Hear that sound? (Score 1) 553
Comment Re:Hear that sound? (Score 1) 553
Mobile OSs are the new "desktops". It is the OS of the new personal computers. Tablets and smartphones.
ARMs are now dominant, not Intel/ x86
Ubuntu is a Linux distro for the "normal" person, not the "propellerhead"
Point is gaming is going to leave Windoze and move to Linux.
And it will be M$ own fault for the changes that made it happen.
Comment Re:Hear that sound? (Score 1) 553
Yup
This time is different though.
Android
iOS
ARM
Ubuntu
Things are changing.
This is what is called a "tipping point"
Comment Hear that sound? (Score 0) 553
That is the gentle rustling noise that a snowball makes.
See, it is rolling down the hill.
Steam.. Games on Linux.. M$ forcing users to upgrade to Win8, users leaving Windows and using Linux for the gaming experience..
Uh-oh!
That snowball is getting bigger pretty fast.
Submission + - Apple gets slapped hard by British Courts (bailii.org)
An anonymous reader writes: As most of us have been reading , Apple tried suing Samsung in the UK for supposedly copying the iPad with the Galaxy Tab.
The British courts disagreed and directed Apple to put a notice on the Apple UK website with the facts and an apology.
More details here:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3520356/apple-loses-uk-appeal-must-run-adverts/in/2297513
Apple added a number of statements which, according to the court, were "calculated to produce huge confusion" — among them, a reference to the separate US verdict that awarded Apple more than one billion dollars in damages.
Now the same courts have ruled that Apple now will have to pay all of Samsungs legal costs in this matter.
The British courts disagreed and directed Apple to put a notice on the Apple UK website with the facts and an apology.
More details here:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3520356/apple-loses-uk-appeal-must-run-adverts/in/2297513
Apple added a number of statements which, according to the court, were "calculated to produce huge confusion" — among them, a reference to the separate US verdict that awarded Apple more than one billion dollars in damages.
Now the same courts have ruled that Apple now will have to pay all of Samsungs legal costs in this matter.
Submission + - Microsoft Surface Touch Cover "Splits within Days" (guardian.co.uk) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian reports: 'Some early users of the Touch Cover of Microsoft's Surface tablet say one of the edges splits to expose a wire just days after they starting using it. A number of users on the Surface Forums site have reported the problem, which has also been experienced by Tom Warren, a writer on the Verge website and Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, a Windows developer. The defect is identical in each case: the cover, which has an integral keyboard, begins to split at its seam where the device attaches magnetically to the main computer. Microsoft did not respond to a request from The Guardian for information about how many reports there had been of the problem. Baxter-Reynolds was told to return his Touch Cover to Microsoft for a replacement, and Microsoft has been swapping faulty covers for users where it has retail stores. It's unclear whether the problems that people have encountered are due to a faulty batch or are a subtle problem that will become more apparent as more people use it for longer- but the fact that users in the US and the UK have reported the problem suggests that it is not isolated to a single manufacturing batch.'
Submission + - Sony DVR useless after Rovi stops TV Guide OnScreen (sony.com)
speedlaw writes: "Rovi has just announced that they are stopping the TV Guide OnScreen service as of April 13th, 2013-this was announced via the service itself. This is an on air listing service that provides listings over the air, as part of an OTA TV signal. Many devices, notably the Sony HDD 250 and 500 Digital Video Recorders, will no longer function without the clock-set data this stream provides. When Microsoft decided to stop supporting Windows 95, they didn't "brick" everyone's system. Worse, Sony never came out with another DVR in the US market. Why do we have to rent them ? How do we get Sony or Rovi to provide at least a software patch to set the clock so the DVR can at least retain 1980's VCR functionality ?
https://forum.sel.sony.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=15646&p=42468#p42468
Sony admits no fix.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/537711/sony-dhg-hdd250-500-official-thread too much information on TV Guide OnScreen.
The TV stations who broadcast the data have been ordered by Rovi to disconnect the data inserters and ship them back. I have a TiVo, and yes, I know all about HTPC, but this data stream was "lifetime listings" like TiVo has "lifetime listings"....now that Rovi is looking to cut, my two DVR units are about to brick....Slashdotters, help !"
https://forum.sel.sony.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=15646&p=42468#p42468
Sony admits no fix.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/537711/sony-dhg-hdd250-500-official-thread too much information on TV Guide OnScreen.
The TV stations who broadcast the data have been ordered by Rovi to disconnect the data inserters and ship them back. I have a TiVo, and yes, I know all about HTPC, but this data stream was "lifetime listings" like TiVo has "lifetime listings"....now that Rovi is looking to cut, my two DVR units are about to brick....Slashdotters, help !"
Comment File Copying leads ti INCREASED sales. (Score 1) 232
NOT lost revenue
Want some documentary evidence:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/eng/h_ip01456.html
The Impact of Music Downloads and P2P File-Sharing on the Purchase of Music: A Study for Industry Canada
Description: Industry Canada undertook a music file sharing study during 2006-07 to measure the extent to which music downloads over peer-to-peer file sharing networks, for which the sound recording industry receives no remuneration, affect music purchasing activity in Canada. The data used for this analysis are from a Decima Research survey conducted between April and June, 2006, on behalf of Industry Canada. The report, prepared by University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz, found that music downloads have a positive effect on music purchases among Canadian downloaders but that there is no effect taken over the entire population aged 15 and over.
Comment Yes , you ARE an idiot (Score 1) 352
It is already well established that China will and are stealing any IP they can.
This is simply another example.
And Google are saying a simple thing to Acer:
If you want to use our tech, for free, don't play these games with us.
Comment Doh! A modernAndroid phone will do fine (Score 1) 158
Galaxy Nexus, bluetooth.
What is described sounds exactly what I have mounted in my truck: A 2012 model JVC stereo/bluetooth DVD deck, and my Galaxy Nexus.
All this discussion of docking is irrelevant. Use Bluetooth.
Comment Long summer breaks were for farmers (Score 1) 729
With very few people still living on farms it is now an anachronism.
Holidays are certainly needed, just not so long.
Perhaps a month off to allow people to vacation is a reasonable length.
We likely need to stagger those intervals of one month across the summer.
Otherwise too many families will be competing for the same vacation resources.
Comment Re:Heat and technology (Score 1) 165
Exacty.
If that is not enough, buy a couple of those gel freezer packs and put them in the bottom,
wrapped in some foil bubble wrap to slow the heat transfer a bit.
That also helps avoid condensation.
Comment Why silicone valley? (Score 1) 395
Hate to break it to you, but the valley is pretty much just sales offices for Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean companies now.
Why would the UK want to re-create that??
