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Comment Re:Nintendo may be king of sinking ship? (Score 1) 273

by otie on Thursday June 17, 2010 @08:05AM (#32600686) Attached to: Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions

Uh. The DSi has a music player, so I'm pretty sure the 3DS will as well. The 3DS will also play 3D movies. It almost certainly won't play arbitrary video files unless you jailbreak / mod / hack it, but anyway. Many people want more than a "decent job playing games" (see: >120M sold DS units).

Comment Re:Dodged a bullet. (Score 1) 249

by otie on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @07:35AM (#32508458) Attached to: Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm

An antivirus company saying that Windows in insecure would be like BP saying that we should all switch to solar power and stop using oil.

Actually, BP probably wouldn't mind. Despite the conspiracy theories, "oil" companies don't hate alternative energy sources - they're actually large investors in wind, solar, etc.. After all, they're not in it for the oil, they're in it for the money. When solar starts getting big(ger), it's mostly the same cats who will profit. Oil just happens to be easily exploitable at the time.

Comment Re:Cue Don Ho song... (Score 1) 219

by otie on Saturday March 27, 2010 @06:01AM (#31638040) Attached to: Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath

Poor guy, Don Ho... I haven't the heart to tell him, but all the women in his family are Hos!

All (or most) of the Ho girls who marry will eventually stop being Hos, though. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing...

Comment Like they would really tell (Score 4, Insightful) 325

by otie on Friday January 15, 2010 @05:33AM (#30776666) Attached to: Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon

No savvy console manufacturer confirms a hardware upgrade before it's just about to hit. Otherwise it'll hurt sales before the upgrade date.

Submission + - Google plans open source OS release

Submitted by

gasmanpopey

on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @05:27AM

gasmanpopey writes: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8139711.stm

BBC news is reporting that Google are planning on releasing an open source OS (which, i'm sure will come as a surprise to nobody). The article is somewhat vague but the wording implies that the OS will be web based. From TFA:

"We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds," said the blog post written by Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Google's engineering director Linus Upson. Both men said that "the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web" and that this OS is "our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be". To that end, the search giant said the new OS would go back to basics. "We are completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates."

Submission + - MSN Soapbox now in public beta

Submitted by Pasito on Thursday February 15, 2007 @02:51AM

Pasito writes: Microsoft has opened up its YouTube killer to the public. Soapbox boasts the following features:

Soapbox allows the users to browse and watch videos at the same time.
Amazing video quality.
Go full screen without restarting the video.
RSS feeds for everything: RSS feed for a tag, a search, a users videos, etc.

What will be interesting to see if they can garner the content since for online video sites, content is king. We'll have to wait and see how they tackle the two big issues of these kinds of sites: revenue generation and copyright material.

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