Comment Re:I can see the legislation now... (Score 2, Funny) 154
Yo dawg...
Comment Re:Barbarella had it right (Score 1) 158
I was born in 1986 and still immediately thought of Seven of Nine you insensitive clod!
Submission + - Halo: Reach leaked (computerandvideogames.com)
neoprint writes: Not sure if this has been submitted, probably has, but the game's been leaked
Comment Hardly a big deal (Score 2, Informative) 276
I've done just under 2tb in a month before, I've heard of other people on the same internet plan as me (Big Time on New Zealand's Telecom, unlmited ADSL2+) before they took it away because of people like me.
Most I heard of was just shy of 3TB, this was on a horribly shaped connection too.
Why is this news?
Comment Re:Playstation, ask the Xbox how this one turned o (Score 2, Informative) 171
When has Xbox Live ever been free? I'm sure I've been paying for it since 2003
Comment Re:Well someone has to. (Score 3, Informative) 184
The main problem in NZ isn't between the home and the backbone, it's the international link and the pathetic download quotas our ISP's give us.
Every single person in NZ could have fibre, and the net could actually slow down as everyone now tries to access overseas sites, saturating the southern cross cable
Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 1174
Ah, New Zealand. Australia's Canada.
Disclaimer: I am a New Zealander :D
Comment Re:1600 x 1200 gaming in 1999? (Score 1) 221
I used to play TOCA 2 and Half-Life in 1600x1200 in 1999. First on my TNT2 then GeForce256
Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 1) 221
http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-meter-foot-cable-1080P/dp/B0002L5R78
Amazon has a perfectly good HDMI cable for 4c
Submission + - Apple kicks HDD marketing debate into high gear 2
quacking duck writes: With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard," Apple has updated a support document describing how their new operating system reports capacities of hard drives and other media. It has sided with hard drive makers who for years have advertised capacities as "1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes" instead of the traditional computer science definition, and in so doing has kicked the debate between marketing and computer science into high gear.
Binary prefixes for binary units (e.g. GiB for "gibibyte") have been promoted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by IEEE and other standards organizations, but to date there's been limited acceptance (though manufacturers have wholeheartedly accepted the "new" definitions for GB and TB). Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?
Binary prefixes for binary units (e.g. GiB for "gibibyte") have been promoted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by IEEE and other standards organizations, but to date there's been limited acceptance (though manufacturers have wholeheartedly accepted the "new" definitions for GB and TB). Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?
Comment Re:Like a driver's license (Score 1) 327
Yes, having tests and driver's licenses has put an end to excessive speeding, cutting people off, tailgating, last minute lane changes, and other dangerous driving behavior because people are now educated in the dangers of doing so.
Wait... no. People still do stupid shit. Not because they don't know better, but because they don't give a shit.
An internet license or whatever would be the same. People already know what to do or not do. They are told all the time. They are told every fucking day at work. They are told by friends or relatives who who have a brain. A small percentage may have these troubles because no one has taken the time to educate them, but for the vast majority that I have had to deal with it's not that people don't know better, it's that they're lazy and don't fucking care.
Wait... no. People still do stupid shit. Not because they don't know better, but because they don't give a shit.
An internet license or whatever would be the same. People already know what to do or not do. They are told all the time. They are told every fucking day at work. They are told by friends or relatives who who have a brain. A small percentage may have these troubles because no one has taken the time to educate them, but for the vast majority that I have had to deal with it's not that people don't know better, it's that they're lazy and don't fucking care.
Comment Re:Where in the world??? (Score 1) 484
Was elementary school hard for you, with math skills like that? Try to keep up:
500 * 500 = (5 * 5) * (100 * 100) = 25 * 10,000 = 250,000
Comment Think of the Applications (Score 1) 484
I read "glass surface" and the friction episode of The Magic Schoolbus comes to mind.
Unfortunately, I don't think a real-life application of the complete lack of friction would help us all (or the children).
Comment Re:Thanks for the laugh! (Score 1) 926
I've never had issues with Firefox in Windows, when I used it. I typically use Chrome these days, though. Firefox is a bit of a dog in Linux, IMO.
The only time I ever open IE is to VPN into work, because we have some weird system that only lets me connect through an ActiveX control.
So what if IE isn't compliant? Use another browser...
Comment Re:You know what? (Score 1) 169
"total story output will in the end average the same amount but higher quality. This "err on the side of speed over truth" attitude is exactly what's wrong with the media today, and any thinking person should do everything in their power to discourage it. If you're going to miss your deadline because it takes too long to get the truth, then the deadline is wrong."
Here, here, author, author!!
