1. Google calendar has the same issue which is more embarrassing since Google calendar is online by definition and can be fixed more easily than outlook.

2. Apparently you can download an updated holidays file and patch Outlook.

3. Now that we've had our daily Microsoft-is-the-stupidest-and-evilest-company-on-the-planet-for-not-accurately-predicting-an-arbitrary-holiday-date-change-years-in-advance post, I'd like to see some more stories about how Americans are stupid and evil and some scientific studies showing that Christians are genetically inferior to the Atheist master race.

This is like saying: Some companies have prevented their drivers from parking their cars in the bad part of town (i.e. the cloud). These guys all drive Fords, but I drive a Chevy. So why not leave my Chevy in the bad part of town instead!

Oh wait...

I'm pretty sure DropBox runs its servers on Linux, but that's completely beside the point. Guess what's more secure? A fileserver that you own and physcially control that happens to be running Windows that's properly configured with strong ACLs and sits behind a VPN gateway... or a Linux powered PHP CMS setup that is leased from one of your competitors and is accessible to anyone who can guess a username/passwor combo?

Guess what: that example doesn't mean that "Linux is not secure" or that "only Windows is secure" either. Frankly, BOTH can be insecure and BOTH can be secure based on the usage and competency of the people who set them up.

AMD still needs to shave the idle power by a factor of 5 to get into tablets and 10 to get into smartphones. I think they can do it, but Bobcat is not the chip for that market.

Even though AMD is not mentioned in TFA there is still a picture of an AMD guy with a wafer (even though ARM doesn't even contract out chip manufacture much less have its own fabs). Silly journalists, TLAs are for engineers.

I've been hearing about how ARM is going to destroy Intel for the last 5 years at least and I haven't seen the products yet despite the promises thrown about with the Cortex A9. It looks like the cortex A15 willl be able to beat Medfield... but you aren't getting those A15s in large quantities until next year when Intel will have the next iteration of Atom ready anyway. Oh and 64 bit? That's gone from an insanely important feature when Intel didn't have it to being useless bloat when Intel does have it and ARM doesn't, but it's OK because in 2015 you might be able to get an ARM chip with 64 bit support....

Since 2008 when the much derided Atom debuted, Intel has gone from not having anything that could remotely run a smartphone or tablet to having Medfield, which is competitive although not industry leading in the smartphone and table space. I have yet to see ARM come out with anything that even threatens a run of the mill Core 2 yet... so why is ARM talking so much trash?

It might be that ARM is a little more nervous that there is finally some real competition in the mobile space, which is a boon to consumers. I'd like to see AMD get an x86 solution down into this power envelope too so that there would be multiple competitors on the x86 side as well.

So on this website whenever Iran, North Korea, China, Russia, etc. do anything that America doesn't like it's universally applauded as "standing up against evil imperialist right-wing Chrisitan America" No matter how bad or destructive the action, it's OK because it's "speaking truth to power" or some nonsense.

Now we have Canada basically saying that it's going to use its own oil, and the exact same people are going apoplectic. International intervention suddenly become

  Note that these same people are strangely silent when Brazil or Venezuela develop new oil resources, and I haven't heard any huge outrage over the fact that drilling off the coast of Cuba will put oil rigs just a few miles from the Florida Keys. The same people who complain that America == Somalia (you've seen those posts) because we don't have the federal government in control of all economic activity never complain when foreign corporations drill for oil righ in the middle of sensitive areas.. as long as the money will be going to a government they approve of.

I've come to realize that environmental movement doesn't really care about what is done to the planet, only on who is doing it. Put up a windmill in America that a bird might run into? Destroying the world! Use nuclear power in Japan? CHINA SYNDROME! Setup nuclear plants in Iran that are known to be using unsafe designs that are intended to produce weapons-grade plutonium instead of producing electricity? No problem. Put an oil pipeline directly through the rainforest in Venezuela to prop up Hugo Chavez? That's a wonder of the world showing how great socialism is!

I've seen it all before and this is just a thin coating of green paint on a corrupt and broken set of ideas.

What sort of Nazi Deathcamp are they running in Hawaii where those poor innocent students are *forced* at gunpoint to use gmail?!?!?!!?

Next thing you know, those sub-human Nazi scum administrators will force the students to attend classes only in predetermined lecture halls based on a nazi-inspired "class schedule" They may even commit the ultimate crime against humanity by having those evil capitalist schill professors force the students to use textbooks and even do "coursework"!!!

This story is the ultimate proof that America is corrupt and evil. At no time in human history has any institution sunk to this level of pure evil. Obviously this is 100% Bush's fault since Hawaii is completely controlled by right-wing capitalist Republican Christian-Nazis.

Now mod me up +5 for bashing America.

The Internet is not and never was designed to be "anonymous" despite the popular myths online. People confuse "anonymity" with the fact that the Internet does not provide any good mechanisms to verify who you are actually dealing with (SSL certificates are a semi-useful additional layer designed to fix that issue).

Go back to the earliest days of the Internet and the WWW and you'll see that it was actually the opposite of anonymity. It was a bunch of physicists who wanted people to actually read their papers and give them grants ;-)

The quick sync hardware is part of the IGP block but it is specialized hardware specifically geared towards transcoding. For example, it is not using the main GPU pipeline and shader hardware to do the transcoding.

The GPU isn't meant to do everything. If it were, there wouldn't be a CPU. Considering the hatred that was poured on Quicksync here, and that Quicksync still produces better quality Transcodes than GPUs while being substantially faster, I don't think we'll be seeing the end of CPU transcoding anytime soon.