Comment Re:Get some glasses, grandpa (Score 1) 549
Would you rather be sent to "Carrousel?"
Submission + - Mobile device makers want standardize connections. (physorg.com)
hawk16zz writes: "CTIA Wireless Association said it is behind an initiative to make 3.5mm plugs the standard for earphones, headphones and micro-USB connections in mobile devices introduced to the market after January 2012."
Comment But you have to have the... (Score 2, Funny) 51
snow how!
Comment Re:RTFA (Score 1) 364
(That law must be sponsored by Garmin and Tom Tom.)
Except for the fact that they both have windows mobile applications and Tom Tom also has an iPhone app, and a Garmin one is to be released soon.
Then just in general:
The only things this does is a) hurt the consumer buy having them pay more to have a separate navigation system and b) the cell phone companies and manufactures that sell the smartphones some people won't be buying because they can't also navigate on it.
If something like this ever came to the states, I'm sure there would be a huge uprising. I use my smartphone to get traffic information and if I need to go someone I usually don't travel to like most GPS users.
Journal Journal: Data point: Flash storage now under $2/GB
I like to watch the prices of USB keys and divide GB by $; just noticed that Buy.com has a 16GB key selling for $27-something, which is the first I've noticed a USB key that size for less than $2/GB, at least without coupons. (And I was pretty happy to see the ones -- iMation, I think -- that Wal-Mart's been selling at $12 for 4GB, or a flat $3 per.)
Comment Re:Battle.net (Score 1) 297
Basically what I'm getting down to is - will the new Battle.net work with original Starcraft and Diablo 2? Will those games be patched to work seamlessly with the people who have the newer games?
That could be one of the reasons why the 1.13 D2 patch isn't ready to be deployed.
Comment Re:Five DLC releases? (Score 1) 101
... I'll be shooting aliens on the pc before i get the chance to kill some commies on my big screen.
That's why I my desktop hooked up to my TV through it's VGA port, but I still want to get a DVI/HDMI adapter so I can get a better picture and resolution.
Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs 150
mikael writes "The LA Times is reporting on the efforts of a group of volunteers with funding from NASA to recover high resolution photographs of the Moon taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 in the 1960s. The collection of 2000 images is stored entirely on magnetic tape which can only be read by a $330,000 FR-900 Ampex magnetic tape reader. The team consisted of Nancy Evans, NASA's archivist who ensured that the 20-foot by 10-foot x 6-foot collection of magnetic tapes were never thrown out, Dennis Wingo, Keith Cowing of NASA Watch and Ken Zim who had experience of repairing video equipment. Two weeks ago, the second image, of the Copernicus Crater, was recovered."
