Comment Re:dammit slashdot (Score 3, Insightful) 240
This is what living in a totalitarian country is like, being afraid of getting caught reading the wrong thing.
Comment Small correction (Score 3, Informative) 206
Heise didn't change their social 'like' buttons. They introduced them. Heise never had these buttons before because of the privacy issues.
Comment Re:House, MD. (Score 1) 272
Actually the s is for sÃure not sauer. While sauer can be used for acid most of the times it just means 'sour'.
Comment Re:Censored (Score 3, Informative) 408
Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration 186
An anonymous reader writes "Google is already experimenting with GPU acceleration in its latest Chrome developer builds. Chrome 7 can separate different layers of a webpage into CPU and GPU processes and combine those layers using the GPU as long as the browser is now launched with certain switches. Chromium 7 has also a new Labs feature that reveals that Google is thinking about moving tabs from the top of the browser to the left side. It seems that Chrome will be catching up with Firefox 4 and IE9 in terms of hardware acceleration soon."
Comment Re:I look just like Buddy Holly (Score 1) 461
And it still works fine under Windows 7, so that's where all that money for backwards compatibility went.
Comment Re:Current Status (Score 5, Funny) 147
The paper was preliminary to begin with. It is currently withdrawn in order to fix minor typos
Minor typos like a ! that m,ade it into the paper by accident.
Comment Germany still censored (Score 5, Interesting) 300
Meanwhile German Google is still censored (no youporn and a few other porn sites, no neo nazi sites).
I wish our government would do something to piss Google off so that we could have uncensored search results (to be fair: In Germany we can just switch from the censored google.de to the uncensored google.com)
I wish our government would do something to piss Google off so that we could have uncensored search results (to be fair: In Germany we can just switch from the censored google.de to the uncensored google.com)
Comment Re:works in germany (Score 1) 1385
[...] And when I arrive, I'm completely relaxed, in shape, and in the center of the town I want to be. [...]
You forgot the 'several hours to late' part (especially if you have to change trains).
Comment Say what you want... (Score 1) 543
...the ad's still funnier tah idle.
Submission + - Physics Nobel Prize 2007
whizzter writes: The prize was awarded for the discovery of the Giant Magnetoresistive Effect,
Peter Grünberg of the Jülich Research Centre and Albert Fert of the University of Paris-Sud that lead the research will receive the prize. During the presentation the Nobel committe stressed how the research had helped decreasing harddrive sizes. The discovery was also the birth of the spintronics field. More information on the prize can be found at the Nobel site.
Submission + - Apple patents the portable user account (arstechnica.com)
athloi writes: "User account portability on OS X may be just such a feature. Usually, having a portable user account means that your home directory and account information are stored on a server, but Apple has teased us by patenting the storage of a user account on an external device. Why this is patent-worthy we don't know, but it's going to introduce a new vein of competition into the market.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/07/ 18/apple-granted-patent-for-ipod-home-directory-po rtability"
Submission + - Wii Drives Strong Growth for Ubisoft in January
njkid1 writes: "Thanks in part to the continued success of the Wii, sales for Ubisoft in the U.S. alone skyrocketed 78 percent during January. The Paris-based company continues to be the #1 independent publisher on the Wii. Ubisoft's future is looking quite bright...
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1532 8&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000023"
Submission + - Why Digg Failed (or may)
beakerMeep writes: David Marcus, a user on Kuro5hin, recently put together an excellent piece on the perils and faults behind the workings of Digg.com. From the article: 'As I write, the top story on Digg is "Transparency in Social News", a newspaper-as-blog item that the Digg community have used as a little self-congratulatory pat on the back. I understand why Digg's users feel like they deserve to toast themselves now and then — after all, they've made the place one of the Web's Top 100 sites, and they've made Digg, Inc. upwards of $200 million.' Incidentally, as I submit this story to Slashdot, Digg has appears to have removed the story from the list of upcoming stories.
