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Comment Heck, Yes! (Score 1) 851

by Benedick on Thursday December 22, 2011 @05:20PM (#38464804) Attached to: Do You Really Need a Smart Phone?

Once you have a smartphone, you can't live without it. Not because you get addicted to it like crack, but because it's so darn useful and versatile.

On a recent vacation, I used my HTC Thunderbolt as: a phone, a text message device, a satellite navigation unit (GPS), a web browser, an MP3 player, a game console, and a camera. Seven functions. When I started thinking about it, it can also be: a calculator, a flashlight, a notepad, a WiFi hub, a voice recorder, an FM radio, and a bubble level. I'm sure there's many more. Having all that functionality in one device in your pocket is incredible.

It's the computing equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. Get a smartphone and you'll love it.

Comment Quite a Turnaround (Score 1) 49

by Benedick on Thursday July 24, 2008 @08:24PM (#24328159) Attached to: Penny Arcade Adventures To Appear On PS3

When the PS3 first came out, Tycho was so unhappy with the high cost, he refused to buy one. Now, I know the price has come down some and that he's bought one, but it's still a long way from righteous indignation to joining forces.

What's next? The Cardboard Tube Samurai switching to steel?

Journal Journal: Temporary blood vessel shunt to be used to save limbs in war 157

Journal by Stile 65 on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:49PM

The FDA has just approved for military use a shunt which allows partially-severed limbs to continue to get circulation. According to the article, "For most, it won't be a matter of saving a limb outright but rather salvaging the quality of a wounded leg or arm." This is because "The tubelike device is designed to connect the two ends of a severed blood vessel, providing a temporary bridge or shunt around a wound to restore blood flow to an

Submission + - AMD's showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU

Submitted by Gr8Apes on Friday February 09, 2007 @08:45PM

Gr8Apes writes: AMD has showcased their new 65nm Barcelona quad-core CPU. It is labeled a quad-core Opteron, but according to Infoworld's Tom Yeager, is really a redefinition of x86. Each core has a new vector math processing unit (SSE128), separate integer and floating point schedulers, and new nested paging tables (to vastly improve hardware virtualization). According to AMD, the new vector math units alone should improve floating point operation by 80%. Some analysts are skeptical, waiting for benchmarks. Will AMD dethrone Intel again? Only time will tell.

Submission + - Hotmail is broken when accessed with Firefox

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 09, 2007 @07:07PM

An anonymous reader writes: I can log in to Hotmail just fine using IE (well, as fine as it's possible to surf the net with the porous, sucking sponge attached to a Petri dish that is IE...), but trying to log in with Firefox gets me this:

Windows Live ID is unavailable from this site for one of the following reasons:

* This site may be experiencing a problem.

* The site may not be a member of Windows Live ID.

It's from the exact same computer at the exact same time as the IE login works. The link is the incredibly difficult http://hotmail.com./ And it worked earlier today.

Maybe we need to send this to that trial in Iowa?

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