Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 358
Ding ding ding ding! You win the prize for the most common sense comment yet!
Comment Trust issues (Score 0) 302
Never trust a tech reviewer with a tie... just sayin'... his geek cred is like 2/10 in my book.
Comment Re:Microsoft should know... (Score 1) 503
I actually kinda see the point of this "troll".
Comment Re:Microsoft should know... (Score 4, Interesting) 503
Something tells me they wouldn't create ActiveX today... they've had well over a decade to learn how bad the technology actually is, and try to mitigate their mistakes with it. It doesn't surprise me they'd make comments on WebGL like this today in 2011. A lot can happen in 15 years.
Comment What about just being the rendering engine? (Score 1) 440
When MS says Win8 = HTML5/js, couldn't they just mean that apps built with the new tools for Win8 will RENDER using HTML5/js, but all of the platform is still
Comment Crab-apple (Score 1) 556
It's shit like this that makes me VERY happy I don't buy Apple products.
Comment Re:Merge (Score 3, Insightful) 153
God please no.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 375
Uhm Office 2007 was a decent product, and came out before Windows 7. So is Office 2010. You put those in the list, and now you have 3 products in a row that customers love. Seriously, people love Office 2k7, Win7, and Office 2010. I think this breaks the "never two decent releases in a row" theory.
Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership 207
siliconbits writes "It looks as if Motorola Mobility could be mulling plans to build an alternative to Google's mobile platform. Several independent sources have confirmed that the mobile phone company is working on a web-based mobile operating system to, as one observer put it, have more control on its own destiny. There's another piece in that puzzle; Motorola Mobility could take even more ownership of its destiny by reviving its ARM license as it depends at the moment on TI and Nvidia to provide the SoCs that power its products; Motorola did produce ARM systems-on-chips in the past."
Comment Re:6990 (Score 2) 124
Because expecting the one line a submitter has to be write to be factually correct is pedantic? It even says 6990 in the story, for fuck's sake.
Yes, please fix this editors... it's 6990, not 5990 like it says in the title.
GeForce GTX 590 and Radeon HD 6990 Face Off 124
Vigile writes "Both NVIDIA and AMD have recently released new extreme-high-end graphics cards with dual-GPU configurations and PC Perspective has compared them to each other with some standard SLI/CrossFire comparisons for good measure. The GTX 590 is a pair of 512 shader processor GF110 GPUs which had the potential to be the fastest combination available, but the clock speeds were lowered to such a level that is has trouble keeping up with AMD's Radeon HD 6990. Sound levels were noticeably better on NVIDIA's option though the Radeon card provided better frame rates at the highest resolutions. So, while the $700 video card market just got a pair of new competitors, the best investment for that money might still be two less expensive Radeon or GeForce single-GPU cards."
Comment Facebook overvalued? (Score 1) 295
From what I've learned from a CFO in the past, an offer to purchase on a good company is usually somewhere between 7-10x the revenue of the company annually. If that holds true, then FB could be bought for up to $16 billion reasonably. $50 billion is assuming 3x that much value. This is ridiculous. No wonder the investor was scratching his head.
Comment Re:Julian Paul Assange = founder of WikiLeaks (Score 0, Offtopic) 1020
Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems 890
Hugh Pickens writes "The Hill reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for US vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. '[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,' Napolitano said in an interview with Charlie Rose. 'I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime.' Napolitano added she hoped the US could get to a place in the future where Americans would not have to be as guarded against terrorist attacks as they are and that she was actively promoting research into the psychology of how a terrorist becomes radicalized. 'The long-term [question] is, how do we get out of this having to have an ever-increasing security apparatus because of terrorists and a terrorist attack?' says Napolitano. 'I think having a better understanding of what causes someone to become a terrorist will be helpful.'"
Comment Greasing the skids... (Score 3, Informative) 76
"Gilder says the Lego robotics kits can only manage around 1.5 moves per second, whereas human players can make between 5 and 6 moves per second, amazingly enough."
Only if the cubes are greased well, otherwise they're stuck with wrestling the bloody things.
