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Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages 211

alphadogg writes "The [Facebook Profile] changes include a clustered listing of biographical information under the user name at the top of the page, including such details as the person's job, hometown, relationship status, where they went to college, what languages they speak and birthdate. Beneath that will appear a set of the five most recent photos that a user allows to be posted at their profile page." The changes unsurprisingly are being met with mixed opinions ranging from rage to anger.

Comment Re:What has this to do with sony yanking linux? (Score 5, Insightful) 337

Homebrew scene != Pirate scene

The homebrew guys are generally more motivated and talented then the pirates. Almost all console hacks come from the homebrew guys so that they can run their own stuff (and linux).

The pirates tend to take homebrew code and use it to run pirated games.

The entire time that PS2 had the "Other OS" option it was not cracked, because the homebrew community could already run their stuff. Compare that to XBOX and WII both of which have been broken a long time ago. As soon as Sony closed off the homebrew community, the inevitable would happen.

Of course its not so black and white, there is overlap between homebrew and pirates, but not as much as you might assume. Take a look at TeamTwizzers long campaign against pirates from using their code. They even tried in the beginning to have a dialogue with Nintendo about ways to support homebrew and keep the pirates out.

Going back to PS2; even with the "Other OS" option the advanced graphic features were locked, so homebrew games could never take full advantage of the hardware (neither could Other OS be used for pirate games). Some months ago a way was found for full hardware access, and not long after that Sony reacted by removing the Other OS feature.

Comment Re:Innovation has been replaced by litigation (Score 4, Interesting) 311

TED had an interesting talk about patents and innovation from the perspective of the fashion industry, in comparison to the software industry. The point being that the fashion industry has no patent protection, is full of innovation and makes a bucket load of money.

The reasons why the fashion industry wasn't allowed patents is also interesting, I would say the same arguments could apply to software.

Comment If rumours are to be believed.. (Score 3, Interesting) 324

Some believe that there already is a second iPhone 4 with the Signal and Proximity detection issues solved. They are also saying that Apple are silently replacing the faulty iPhone 4 models with the new one for anyone that brings their faulty one in for repair.

Some googling found this:
http://gizmodo.com/5586256/is-apple-silently-recalling-the-iphone-4-now

I think I first heard it via The Register.

Comment NTFS (Score 3, Interesting) 253

NTFS or any other FUSE (MacFUSE) file system. However in a heterogeneous environment NTFS has the bonus of native Windows support.

There is NTFS-3G for Linux and Mac OS X

There is also an EXT2 Fuse FS (for Mac OS), and probably many other options.

Having said that, I have never had a problem with Linux's HFS+ write support.

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