Comment Re:Give me a break (Score 1) 542
First android phones weren't multitouch, so pinch-zoom was impossible.
Comment Re:Oh c'mon, why the outcry? (Score 2) 129
Fortunately not every corporation corrupts the iso process, not every corporation joins a standardization body while parallely setting a patent ambush.. So yes corporations can act differently;
I guess the morality of the executive leadership can affect the morality of the corporation's acts.
Sometimes the main shareholders are real humain beings with a conscience, which may affect their choices for the corporation.
Even if we accept the idea that every corporations are without conscience, they may a least be concerned and be affected by their customers perception of their acts.
If we excuse someone just because others did/do the same or worse, everything is excusable.
I guess the morality of the executive leadership can affect the morality of the corporation's acts.
Sometimes the main shareholders are real humain beings with a conscience, which may affect their choices for the corporation.
Even if we accept the idea that every corporations are without conscience, they may a least be concerned and be affected by their customers perception of their acts.
If we excuse someone just because others did/do the same or worse, everything is excusable.
Comment Re:Steve's impact on the world (Score 1) 1027
Steve Wozniak is still active, is the chief scientist of Fusion-IO.
They make very high IOPS storage devices in the form of PCI Express cards with solid state ram.
They make very high IOPS storage devices in the form of PCI Express cards with solid state ram.
Comment Re:Everywhere except Germany (Score 1) 137
While HP Touchpad tablets stay on the shelves, Android tablets have captured 20% of the market share.
Comment Re:I bought the games (Score 1) 125
A big part of the difference is justified by the VAT, 19.6 % in my country..
Submission + - Simulating Societies at the Global Scale (hpcinthecloud.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A team of European researchers are vying to create a distributed supercomputer of unprecedented scale to simulate the data that streams in from hundreds of devices and feeds (mobile, Twitter, market data, medical input, etc)
Comment Re:In other words... (Score 1) 203
Different sized controllers ?
That was so much of an "innovation" that its successor has only one size of controller.
A monthly subscription mandatory to play online, that's the kind of innovation i can live without.
Submission + - Microsoft accomplice of Ben Ali (rue89.com)
jean-guy69 writes: According to an article published by french website Rue 89 and writtend by ReadWriteWeb France's Fabrice Epelboin (coral cache translated version ):
By including the tunisian governemental agency "National Digital Certification Agency" Root CA in 2007 (announcement by NDCA), and by not restricting it to .tn domain, Microsoft effectively allowed tunisian cyberpolice to perform SSL man-in-the-middle attacks against protesters.
The tunisian state succeeded in depriving many cyber-resistant of their Facebook account, essential to the organization of field activities, in gaining acess to their correspondence, with the ability to thwart the actions in progress.
When any government can be given the possibility to create certificates for any domain, isn't HTTPS
security fundamentally broken ?
At least, when such events as in Tunisia happen, should we expect Microsoft to remove the issued Root CA ?
Is this reasonable to leave such a power and such a responsibility to a single private company ? Or should this be at least supervised by some international body ?
By including the tunisian governemental agency "National Digital Certification Agency" Root CA in 2007 (announcement by NDCA), and by not restricting it to
The tunisian state succeeded in depriving many cyber-resistant of their Facebook account, essential to the organization of field activities, in gaining acess to their correspondence, with the ability to thwart the actions in progress.
When any government can be given the possibility to create certificates for any domain, isn't HTTPS
security fundamentally broken ?
At least, when such events as in Tunisia happen, should we expect Microsoft to remove the issued Root CA ?
Is this reasonable to leave such a power and such a responsibility to a single private company ? Or should this be at least supervised by some international body ?
Comment Double standards (Score 1) 630
I suggest Steve Jobs to put his money where is mouth is.
Please change http://trailers.apple.com/ so that it doesn't require quicktime plugin for watching video.
Please change http://trailers.apple.com/ so that it doesn't require quicktime plugin for watching video.
Comment Re:Oh dear... (Score 1) 630
Of course Steve Jobs is all for open standards, he would NEVER use content to force us to install apple software when html5 so nicely fits the bill...
It's why http://trailers.apple.com/ is full html5, and you don't need to install quicktime to watch videos... Oh wait !
At least the Apple HTML5 showcase page access isn't limited to Safari anymore..
It's why http://trailers.apple.com/ is full html5, and you don't need to install quicktime to watch videos... Oh wait !
At least the Apple HTML5 showcase page access isn't limited to Safari anymore..
Submission + - Toyota Partners With Tesla to Make Electric Cars (businessweek.com)
x_IamSpartacus_x writes: Business week has a story about Toyota putting $50 million into Tesla and Tesla buying a Toyota factory in California to make electric cars in the USA. Toyota had to close the factory because of its struggling business in the States but Tesla will be reopening the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, California, known as NUMMI. “This seems like a good deal for both parties, especially Toyota, from being able to avoid the political fallout from shutting NUMMI down to being able to offer a new electric vehicle with just a low initial investment cost,” said Jeremy Anwyl, Chief Executive Officer at auto industry researcher Edmunds.com in Santa Monica, California. The tie-up brings Toyota, the world’s biggest seller of hybrid autos, together with Tesla, the only company now selling U.S. highway-legal battery-powered cars. Electric-car technology has been supported by U.S. policy makers including President Barack Obama as a way to reduce the nation’s oil use and dependence on foreign energy sources.
One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint 183
Last April, we discussed news that video game rental service GameFly had complained to the USPS that a large quantity of their game discs were broken in transit, accusing the postal service of giving preferential treatment to more traditional DVD rental companies like Netflix. Now, just over a year later, an anonymous reader sends word that the USPS has responded with a detailed inquiry into GameFly's situation (PDF). The inquiry's 46 questions (many of which are multi-part) cover just about everything you could imagine concerning GameFly's distribution methods. Most of them are simple, yet painstaking, in a way only government agencies can manage. Here are a few of them:
"What threshold does GameFly consider to be an acceptable loss/theft rate? Please provide the research that determined this rate. ... What is the transportation cost incurred by GameFly to transport its mail from each GameFly distribution center to the postal facility used by that distribution center? ... Please describe the total cost that GameFly would incur if it expanded its distribution network to sixty or one hundred twenty locations. In your answer, please itemize costs separately. ... Does the age of a gaming DVD or the number of times played have more effect on the average life cycle of a gaming DVD?"
Comment Re:Sorry kids (Score 4, Insightful) 739
I do exactly the same as the GP, so I'm really interested to know how exactly can we otherwise evaluate if a game is good enough to buy. Please let us know.
Do you need a free lunch to evaluate if a restaurant is worth your money ? How do you evaluate if a movie is worth the ticket without seeing it ? Seriously..
The Unsung Heroes of PC Gaming History 325
An anonymous reader writes "The history of PC gaming is littered with many well-known and highly regarded titles, but what about the titles you mightn't have heard of? This list of the top games in the history of the PC includes the usual suspects, such as Half-Life and Doom, but also some often overlooked PC games including such classics as Elite, the space trading RPG developed in 1984 by two college friends from Cambridge for the Acorn and BB Micro systems. The game used a truly elegant programming hack to create over 200 different worlds to explore while using 32kb of memory, all with 3D wireframes. Also in the list is Robot War, which required players to actually code the participants, and one of the first online multiplayer RPGs, Neverwinter Nights, which introduced many of the developer and user behaviors, such as custom guilds, that have made modern RPGs so popular."
What's your favorite classic game that always gets overlooked in these kinds of lists? My vote goes for Star Control 2.
Comment Donor card ? (Score 1) 21
A type of fertilizer called purin can involve urine as a major component. It is used at least in France, for ages.
Generally the urine of cattle is used, but human urine can be used too, especially in the case for little garden where people grow vegetables for their own consumption.
