oops, bad link to ARD. here it is:
http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/

There's also Apple Remote Desktop. Here's a very interesting blog from someone who works at Microsoft's Macintosh Lab - used for testing MS products on Macs.

http://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html

They manage the Macs using KVM switch boxes and Apple Remote Desktop.

The screen shot of ARD displaying 50 machines at the same time on an Apple 30 inch display is way up there in the coolness factor!

Now how would that work? Airco working directly on waste heat? That would be fantastic as then you can use the heat from the sun to run your airco. I have never heard of a heat pump that can be powered directly by heat and heat alone.

Fairly obviously - you get what they give you.

There's no technical barrier to them offering you addons and mods, so it's the service provider's choice as to whether or not they do.

Likewise rebinding the keyboard layout. That's going to be a feature of the game, not the platform.

Well, yeah, you're not likely do do VoPTP (Voice over Pigeon Transfer Protocol) or play an online game using pigeons as packet carriers. The latency is bad. But this was a POC (Pigeon of Concept) that will lead to an RFC (Request Flying Carrier) and eventually it will go Beta (Birds Enabling Telecommunications Applications).

One of the most interesting aspects of this is running Mario Kart 64... I doubt Nintendo has licensed a Mario game out, so is this running from a real cart? Via an emulator or real N64? Either way I can't see Nintendo being pleased.

50 Win points (TM) to whoever tagged this "half-duplex"

... Martian barbers will rule the planet by 2025? btw, someone should read the tag "hoax" in this article...

Vista didn't achieve anything. Market channel manipulation achieved this result. One needs to be careful with words like "achieved" since it sometimes proclaims a consensus where none exists.

I know a guy who runs a bike store. He says about 2/3rds of his customers don't actually ride the shiny new bikes they purchase. How does he know? Because anyone who rides a new bike hard comes back in a month or two for some significant adjustments, such as index shifters completely out of whack, or improperly tensioned wheels trending toward a Pringles chip.

Any survey which doesn't qualify the participants between the two groups (those who ride enough to care, and those who don't) is suspect right off the blocks.

More than half of all bikes sold become garage ornaments. These bikes have nothing at all to tell us about the difference between a good bike and a bad bike, or any figure of consumer merit apart from shiny paint and status-appropriate price tag.

A lot of people who think they are going to commute buy full suspension bikes (or at least a full suspension saddle). But you don't see a lot of people who actually do commute riding those kinds of bikes.

If you told me "60% of bikes purchased for commuting to work are full suspension" I would response "yeah, whatever". I certainly wouldn't call it an achievement. Nor for a dreadfully oversprung OS.

China sees that it can strike while the iron is hot. Without declaring war on everyone, at that. All they have to do is restrict trade while the major countries flop around with oil pains and they'll soon be the top country.

well it's a story about operators in the UK where the GBP is king. also the euro has a relevancy here too

the dollar isn't really relevant to a story here unless it's maybe about the exchange rate or some such.

so unless you are personally willing to go through ALL the stories here on slashdot and convert ALL the dollar values to GBP and Euros then there's ALWAYS www.xe.com to help

you are welcome

I totally disagree with you here. Apple feels 100% different from Microsoft (hell, they even put the minimize, maximize and close icons on the window manager completely on the opposite site) and yet they succeed.

No; you need quality. As Linux user I will be taking a fresh perspective on this from a higher purpose here. First up: Does it even work? The awnser is "NO". Yeah it is comming with Gallium3D bla bla bla but it is comming and it is not here yet. So no-go from graphics (unless you still feel like using a 2D desktop ala 2009) and no-go for OpenCL.

Next stop: "Does it have advantages over the competition?" The awnser is "It's on par". Linux, in an idiot-friendly distro, is not faster and about kind-of as secure as Mac (maybe more, maybe less; only the future will tell us).

Final destination: "Does it out-app the competition?" and the awnser is probably still "No".

So ladies and gentleman: Linux is not ready yet, although I believe it will be kicking serious ass in a year or four.

Correct me if I am wrong but don't most indie developers code for the more hardcore and niche market where big studios target a mainstream audience? So to survive financially, the indies need to either change their approach or find a way to reach a larger mass.

Such is the price we pay for not living in anarchy. Besides, in this day and age there is likely a camera phone recording the incident, which would vindicate you.

No, if you construct something from copyright, then that is a derivative work as well and infringing.

If I buy from you a book, and make a copy of said book, that is OK. But if I then sell the copy, then I have infringed on your copyright license to me.