Comment Is this really US of A? (Score 1) 379
It sounds more and more like China, where when you get accused, you are presumed illegal until you prove it otherwise. Ha ha, it is funny to see this happen in the US of A
Comment Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot (Score 1) 515
Easy to solve, just move up the hierarchy or switch job.
Comment Re:Try to get First Post on Slashdot (Score 1) 515
Well said! This is the attitude!
Submission + - XBMC v11 Eden has been released (xbmc.org)
themib writes: "After only two release candidates XBMC v11.0 Eden has been released. The latest version contains many updates and new features including: Addon Rollbacks, Confluence improvements, Dirty region rendering, a new JPEG decoder, movie scraping, better network support, a new upgraded Weather service. This announcement also heralds the new XBMCbuntu Final."
Comment Re:Mostly unrelated: Command Tab in OS X (Score 1) 359
Comment Re:oven (Score 1) 1016
Well put, exactly.
Comment Worth every dime of it (Score 1) 156
... if the display is indeed an e-ink color. That is it, nothing else mattered (for a Kindle).
Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support 197
Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."
Comment LTE is NOT 4G!! (Score 1) 283
4G is officially referring to IMT Advanced as defined by ITU-R. The LTE and WiMax (802.16e) we have now have not yet reached the requirements in IMT Advanced to be called 4G, and LTE is definitely not "the dominant 4G standard" as quoted in the article. Although IMT Advanced is not yet finalized and has to wait until October this year, the candidates include LTE-Advanced (3GPP LTE R10 and beyond) and WiMax Evolution (IEEE 802.16m).
4G as defined to IMT Advanced would give a 100Mbps peak data rate during high mobility and 1Gbps during stationary/low mobility.
LTE that AT&T and the rests would deliver 100Mbps downlink data rate but only about 50Mbps uplink, and only up to about 300Mbps when in low mobility. For the real 4G, one will have to wait until October this year to have the IMT-Advanced to become finalized, and that LTE-Advanced would hopefully be available in 2012.
How To Replace FileVault With EncFS 65
agoston.horvath writes "I've written a HOWTO on replacing Mac OS X's built-in encryption (FileVault) with the well-known FUSE-based EncFS. It worked well for me, and most importantly: it is a lot handier than what Apple has put together. This is especially useful if you are using a backup solution like Time Machine. Includes Whys, Why Nots, and step-by-step instructions."
Comment So what ? (Score 1) 338
You have very good points about MS's capability to turn up a nice and good tablet, but at the end, all these won't matter, as we are still going to use it because this is the only tablet the corporate recognize as a compatible device, and you are still going to pay for all those bug fixes...
Reality is cruel and hard.
Comment Re:Yeah! (Score 1) 338
Should parent be rated as Score: 5, Funny ??
Comment It depends... (Score 1) 338
if the Courier weight the same or less than a hardcover book, then it would be okay, otherwise, it is just another touch screen notebook.
Oh, and I hope MS won't repeat their mistake in WinCE by assuming the same user interface on Win7 would also do fine for a tablet, it won't.
Hmmm...you seem pretty firm that the iTablet is real, and is a traditional tablet, making the Courier an immediate choice over them
Microsoft's Risky Tablet Announcement 338
itwbennett writes "The New York Times describes the tablet announcement that Steve Ballmer is supposed to make in his CES opening keynote tonight as 'one of Steve Ballmer's riskiest trade show moves in years.' And blogger Peter Smith is in complete agreement. Here's why: 'Whether or not this announcement is intended as a direct response to the much-rumored Apple event that may or may not be happening on January 27th, consumers will perceive it as one,' says Smith. And if Microsoft unveils a traditional tablet then 'they'll be up against the (presumably more expensive) iTablet and the cult of Apple.' But if the device is the dual-screen Courier that we heard about back in September then it'll be up against the (presumably less expensive) enTourage eDGe, says Smith."
Submission + - Mathematicians Explain Dark Energy: There Isn't (pnas.org) 1
rubycodez writes: A veritable plethora of "dark energy" stories have recently infested slashdot, but two mathematicians have provided correction to Hubble constant and relation of red shift to luminosity. *Poof*, the need for mysterious fictitious "dark energy" completely disappears to explain the observed accelerating expansion of the universe. So the answer to the question of dark energy is much like the answer to bending spoons in the matrix, the first thing we must realize is that there is no dark energy.
