Comment So why Yahoo? (Score 1) 161
So why are they moving to Yahoo again?
Martin Jetpack Closer To Takeoff In First Responder Applications 55
Zothecula writes Last year's redesign of the long-awaited Martin Jetpack was accompanied by plans to begin commercial sales in 2014, starting with emergency response services and individual sales to follow thereafter. The release date for the first responder Jetpack has since been revised to 2016, a prediction bolstered by the fresh announcement of a partnership between Martin Aircraft Company and US company Avwatch to develop air-based, first responder solutions for the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense.
Comment Works on non-sony devices (Score 2) 130
No, Sony's service works on iOS devices and they plan on rolling it out across other non-Sony devices.
Comment What the law should then require: (Score 1) 353
Just don't have software loaded on the PC at all, and include a disc that images your computer if you do agree that you want it at retail/on order.
Comment Re:Terrible Summery (Score 1) 308
So saying "A government MP offers the scant assurance that this legislation is not "trauma tainted," as it was drafted well prior to this week's instigating incidents" is definitely no consolation. Canadians should be happy that they decided to go nuts prior to this event rather than after? Do they want a cookie for that?
Comment I finally switched to Mint (Score 3, Interesting) 110
I finally switched to Mint with Cinnamon and love it. I appreciate what Ubuntu has done to make Linux usable on the desktop, but in that spirit I am now supporting Mint, which seems to have taken over that position with a great interface that promises consistency.
Comment Why limit this? (Score 1) 165
Why is this only being limited to acts "on a computer"? If they feel so strongly about it, why doesn't it apply to any such act regardless of a computer being involved?
Comment Re:Recognition (Score 1) 150
Part of their deal when they bought out a subsection of Nokia was that they couldn't use the Nokia name on such products.
Comment That would explain frame rate (Score 1) 338
That would explain frame rate, if they couldn't get their physics/AI routines to work fast enough (although they could use interpolation routines to alleviate that), but does not explain the rendering resolution. Do they expect us to believe they had the CPU working on shaders or rasterization? Even post-processing effects would be handled by the GPU.
Comment The worst part... (Score 1) 774
The worst part is when shortcut keys and mnemonics are changed because of a different language, I navigate by keyboard and have to re-learn everything on other systems and guess what the right command is if I don't know the language.
Comment Re:Please explain (Score 4, Interesting) 114
Couldn't they just have a USB ID/Bluetooth ID whitelist?
Comment Re:Speaking for myself (Score 1) 320
That and Nickelodeon is where kids rule.
Comment Not that it matters... (Score 1) 283
They're all being disregarded anyway, what are they complaining for?
Comment Re:I don't think we are giving anything up. (Score 2) 554
Exactly, I don't want an OS that's a resource hog. As for smartphones? They can't keep running at top speed for long before getting heat throttled, or the battery dying. It's apples and oranges. And they still have moments of slowdown and stuttering with all that power. I'd rather have a smooth experience where the OS stays out of the way.
David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures 942
00_NOP writes: Children in the U.K. have been taught in metric measures in school since (at least) 1972, but yesterday British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that they should actually be taught in Imperial measures (which are still in use officially to measure road distances and speeds, but not really anywhere else). Is this because he hasn't a clue about science or because he is catering to a particular political base?
