Comment Re:Not much of a threat (Score 0) 185
You sir, are not familiar with the bureaucracy they call the US government. It wouldn't surprise me if they have to spend $1 Billion to be able to store only 50 Terabytes of the data..
Comment Re:Sweet (Score 1) 103
What makes the wii better suited for distribution of video over the Xbox 360 especially since the 360 has netflix already in its camp?
Submission + - Researchers Prove Everybody Loves an Underdog
Active Seti writes: "Everybody loves an underdog: Texans at the Alamo, the Greeks at Thermopylae, Apple Computer in the 1980's and 90's, or Rocky
Balboa. Those who are viewed as disadvantaged arouse our sense of fairness and justice — principles that matter to most people. Researchers also found that people tend to believe that underdogs put forth more effort than top-dogs. Although favorable evaluations disappear when underdog status no longer applies, politicians and computers can still get a lot of mileage out of underdog status as when Apple aired it's original 1984 ads — ads that have recently been copied by political campaigns. The original paper shows the methodology (pdf) used to test the premise."
Submission + - Windows XP driver support begins to end (blorge.com) 3
thefickler writes: "It's official, manufacturers are starting to dump Windows XP support entirely and some new models won't even have Windows XP drivers or any kind of support available, anywhere. One reader, "Mark" contacted TECH.BLORGE regarding installing Windows XP on his HP V6610 (Australian) laptop which is the V6620 in the US. "Mark" said when he went to the HP driver/downloads section that very few Windows XP drivers were available for it and he was right, there were almost no useful drivers for the laptop there. His call to HP support didn't get very far as "HP is no longer supporting Windows XP on the newer PCs.""
Submission + - Nuke Lab + Supercomputers = Truth Behind Tunguska (popularmechanics.com)
malachiorion writes: It's no Roswell, but the Tunguska event, a June 30, 1908, explosion that cleared an 800-sq.-mi. swath of Siberian forest, remains a hot topic for the X-Files set. Was it a UFO crash? An alien weapons test? Now, Sandia National Laboratories has released its own explanation for the event. Using supercomputers to create a 3D simulation of the explosion, the Department of Energy-funded nuke lab determined that Tunguska was, indeed, the result of a relatively small asteroid. Even if you don't care in the slightest, the terrifying simulation videos are well worth checking out.
