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AMD shifts focus from competing with Intel, to com-> 1

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on Monday November 28, @09:18PM

E1ven writes ""We're at an inflection point," AMD Spoksman Mike Silvermantold Mobile Tech Today,
"We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore."
This has begun speculation that x86's Days as a Consumer Microarchitecture are Numbered."
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RoboHash turns any string into a Robot-> 0

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on Wednesday August 31, @10:56AM

E1ven writes "Robohash is a quick web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text.
Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a pretty image for your site.

With hundreds of millions of variations, Robohash is the among the leading robot-based hashing tools on the web."
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Comment: Good Start! (Score 1) 168

by E1ven on Friday August 26, @03:43PM (#37222716) Attached to: PS3 <em>Counter-Strike</em> To Support Keyboard and Mouse

This is a great start, but I'd like to see them backport the KB/Mouse to their older games as well.
I've always been a PC gamer, but this is step in the right direction. They could port it to Portal 2 with a Software patch, and I'd be a happy guy.

If more companies did this, the PS3 would be an obvious buy for me..
I also like the openness Sony's had with their PSN, and I like that I can buy Portal 2 for PS3, and get a Steam version for free.

Sony is a bunch of asshats in lots of areas, but they're doing OK on this part.

Google directly copied Java Source Code into Andro-> 0

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on Friday January 21 2011, @11:54AM

E1ven writes "In what is starting to look like a redux of the SCO case, it has now come out that Google lifted code directly from public (but not OSS) Sun sources, and added them to Android."
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Sony released new platform built on GNUstep-> 0

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on Wednesday November 24 2010, @06:26PM

E1ven writes "Sony has released a new open development platform for consumer devices, based on the GNUstep codebase. From their site-The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably."
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VMware to buy SUSE-> 0

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on Friday September 17 2010, @02:51AM

E1ven writes "Vmware (a division of EMC) has announced their intent to buy the SUSE Linux division of Novell."
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Comment: Re:why buy WoG through Steam, instead of NOT throu (Score 1) 572

by E1ven on Wednesday May 12 2010, @02:51PM (#32185842) Attached to: Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way

I GREATLY prefer to buy games through Steam, and will often pay a premium to do so. It gives me the convenience of being able to download it on any PC I go to; It's in my list, along with every other game.
I don't need to store the DMG or ISO, and go through a manual install process. It's all there, in one place, easy as pie, and ready to move across systems.

New Visual style for Ubuntu-> 0

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on Wednesday March 03 2010, @05:59PM

E1ven writes "Ubuntu has released a driven by the theme "Light". They've developed a comprehensive set of visual guidelines and treatments that reflect that style, and are updating key assets like the logo accordingly. The new theme takes effect in 10.04 LTS and will define our look and feel for several years."
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Objections to the OGG container format-> 0

Submitted by E1ven on Wednesday March 03 2010, @01:34PM

E1ven writes "The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws."
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Ubuntu Desktop in the Cloud-> 0

Submitted by jimjimovich on Wednesday March 03 2010, @01:13PM

jimjimovich writes "One new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 that caught my attention is the Desktop in the Cloud project. Ubuntu already has great EC2 support, and it's getting even better. Now you can launch Ubuntu Desktop instances on EC2 and connect to them with an NX client."
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