Comment Live Mesh (Score 1) 325
Perhaps this will lead to a Live Mesh client for iPhone. It would be nice to sync files to the device over-the-air through a tool I already use.
Comment Re:Good grief. (Score 1) 132
If you're snooping with plans to present it IN COURT, you'll still need permission.
If you're doing it just to be a joker or a pervert, yeah, you can do it already.
Comment Re:Understandable WRONG (Score 1) 106
But that is exactly what this phone debate is about.
At any time you can buy a full price phone and walk to another provider. This exclusivity debate is because we want discounted devices.
Or else you'd just pay $800 for an iPhone, go to T-mobile and shut up about it.
Comment Re:How long did they take to get this out? (Score 2, Informative) 299
The 2010 model year Camaro is the currently shipping model.
http://www.chevrolet.com/camaro/
Comment Re:Understandable WRONG (Score 1) 106
You can only use your PS2 on PS Home and your XBox 360 on XBox Live. No one publicly complains there either.
And computer makers are exactly doing what you're saying. If you want a DISCOUNTED Acer Netbook, you have to use it on AT&T Data. If you want an HP DISCOUNTED Netbook, you have to use it on Verizon.
Comment Unpopular Answer (Score 1) 199
For Windows, most of the Bluetooth dongles I've tried come with the profile and drivers to use the PC as a Bluetooth speakerphone for a paired PC.
Is there such a possibility for Linux?
Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes 841
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.
'Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,' Gates said while opening a jar on stage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.
'I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.'" Say what you will about the guy, that is showmanship. Well done.
Why Netbooks Will Soon Cost $99 221
CWmike sends along a ComputerWorld piece which predicts that
"netbooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note will soon cost as little as $99. The catch? You'll need to commit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost will come courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone. It's likely that HP is working with AT&T (they're reported to be talking), which announced a major strategic shift a couple of weeks ago that should result in AT&T stores selling nonphone gadgets that can take advantage of mobile broadband, including netbooks. What's more interesting is that low income and cheapskate buyers are starting to use iPhones as replacements or substitutes for netbook, notebook and even desktop PCs. The author's take: A very large number of people are increasingly looking to buy a single device — or, at least, subscribe to a single wireless account — for all their computing and communications needs, and at the lowest possible price."
HP Opens Up TouchSmart To Third-Party Developers 32
TheTieGuy writes "HP recently released their TouchSmart Application Development Guidelines to third party developers, allowing anyone to port and create touch-friendly applications that integrate and run within the TouchSmart Software suite on their popular TouchSmart PC. As part of the release, HP has gotten behind Capable Networks' Touchsmart Community website and forum to distribute the guidelines to developers while providing an environment for TouchSmart developers to interact. Also on the site is a download hub that allows TouchSmart developers to upload and share their creations with TouchSmart owners in a central location. To kick off the new development initiative, the TouchSmart Community is running a promotion that will send one developer (travel expenses paid) to demo their software in the HP booth at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, along with a free TouchSmart PC, HP MediaSmart Server, and a month of promotion in the community."
Comment Re:Not much of a point. (Score 1) 370
I can go to the store and buy an Xbox points card and go home and use it to download a copy of Halo for XBox onto my XBox 360, or I can just go to the store and buy a copy of Halo, probably for less than the $15 worth of points.
I'm not going to defend Sony, especially with the stupidity of their ideas, but I still think it is one of the intentions of the card based system.
I'm not going to defend Sony, especially with the stupidity of their ideas, but I still think it is one of the intentions of the card based system.
Journal Journal: Why Linux on Mac x86 hardware?
After writing this post: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=177675&cid=14736768
I seemed to have attracted the usual fanboy posting. Seems I'm an Apple fanboy myself. I didn't actually know that, being that I haven't owned an Apple since my Apple II+.
I'm just at such a huge loss as to why you'd purchase over priced Apple Mac x86 hardware, and then turn around and delete the OS and use it as a Linux box. Why
