Comment: Re:Um, what? (Score 1) 492
I couldn't watch the whole thing. It just gave me an uncontrollable urge for Fanta...
Dutch City Fears Loss of Pornography Archive 61
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from the oh-the-humnaity dept.
from the oh-the-humnaity dept.
The Dutch city of Leeuwarden has lost the municipal pornography archive and officials fear it may be gone forever. A spokesman for the city said the collection may have been taken home "accidentally" by an employee or visitor. "We're hoping that someone will say 'Hey, I have that in my attic' and bring it back," he said Thursday. "No questions asked." Leeuwarden shouldn't be too upset. I've found it a good practice to get rid of your porn archive and rebuild every 6 months or so.
Stop-Motion Modbook Upgrade Video 14
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timothy
from the how-to-do-that dept.
from the how-to-do-that dept.
Brian Northway writes "This funny, stop-motion, photo-animated video shows the process of converting an Apple MacBook to an Axiotron Modbook tablet, in one minute and fifty-nine seconds — viewable in standard quality or high-definition (720p), for exceptional detail. It's the latest installment a series of light-speed technical videos that I've created, wihich include the explorational disassembly of a PSP-3000, a unibody MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air, an iPhone, and many other Apple devices."
Wii Check-Up Channel 38
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Soulskill
from the apple-a-day-keeps-dr.-mario-away dept.
from the apple-a-day-keeps-dr.-mario-away dept.
Cemu writes with news that Nintendo is teaming up with Panasonic, NEC, and Hitachi to work on the Wii Fit Body Check Channel, which will use data from the Wii Fit to provide users with health advice. Quoting:
"Since last December, NEC and NEC mobile began a cell phone version of the 'Wii Fit Body Check Channel.' Starting this April, the NEC Group (NEC and NEC Mobile) will launch a hosted Wii Fit Channel aimed at employees and their families. The company hopes to offer this service outside NEC in the future. ... Also this April, Wii Fit and the Wii Fit Body Check Channel will be introduced by Panasonic Medical Solutions to health care workers with its Plissimo Sigusa health care plan. What's more, Panasonic Medical Solutions is offering the program to the country's health insurance union."
Comment: Re:RTFM (Score 2, Informative) 780
Do your research - your point is pretty much ass-backwards. The manufacturers are quoting their sizes in gigabytes, which are SI units defined as 10^9 bytes. A gibibyte is the familiar 2^30, 1024MB unit that we all associate as being a gigabyte.
Actually, 1 GiB=1024 MiB. That's the whole issue of this case. MB!=MiB, as with kB and KiB, and GB and GiB. The difference between a GB and a GiB is roughly 6.87%, yet when you hit the TB/TiB level, the difference is roughly 9.05%. The greater the prefix, the more the inconsistency between the two units of measurement. I view this case as preventative action for the soon coming terabyte and tebibyte hard drives. As sizes grow, so do our losses (although, technically, they are advertising correctly, and the OS makers are using improper notation).
Samsug announces look-alike iphone killer
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goombah99 writes "Samsung unveiled a prototype of their touchscreen phone. It's look, single button front, full-face touchscreen are the essentially identical to the iphone. The screen resolution is sufficiently worse that video viewing will be less of a pleasure, it's thicker, and it lacks Wi-Fi. But it has a slide-out full thumb-board, a 5 mega pixel camera, supports 3G (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access). Web connectivity however lacks the elegant full screen approach with a gestural interface of the iphone. Price, battery life and availability are not known. Read Here and here for first impressions. My impression is that hardware wise it's at the same level as the iphone so, as always, it's the apple polish of the interface that will be the deciding factor. Simultaneously, Microsoft revealed a workmanlike update of it's mobile version."
The Return of Toys 148
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Zonk
from the give-me-my-1ups-any-day-of-the-week dept.
from the give-me-my-1ups-any-day-of-the-week dept.
valdean writes "With videogames becoming so ubiquitous, it sometimes seems like kids have less and less time for toys these days. Toy makers, however, are pushing back with high tech toys designed to be more compelling than a game of Supreme Commander. The New York Times reports that remote controlled vehicles in particular seem to be up for some friendly competition. As one designer suggests, 'navigating well-designed vehicles in the physical world... is vastly more compelling than steering a virtual vehicle in a computer-generated universe.' Will toys ever be able to compete with videogames again?"
Should I "cheat" on my psychometric test?
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An anonymous reader writes "I've been for a second job interview, which was quite positive — and it's for a job I want. The company's HR division does psychometric tests on all new employees. This is (apparently) so that your manager can know what kind of person you are, and whether you are achieving your potential, or if you can be pushed for more. Now here's the question: what are these tests really for? I have a friend who deliberately fuzzed his IQ test at school, and his teachers still think he worked very hard. If I don't want to be squeezed for my dying drops of blood and sweat, should I answer every 8th question at random and fuzz the results a bit? Has anyone done this? Or wished they did?"
Report: Jobs Backdated Pixar Options
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narramissic writes "While he was chairman of Pixar, Steve Jobs may have improperly backdated stock-option grants. From the ITworld.com article: 'Jobs approved a March 2001 employment contract with Toy Story director John Lasseter that granted Lasseter Pixar stock options priced in December 2000, three months before the contract was signed and when the stock price was at its lowest level of the year.'"
Phishers are just another good customer?
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netbuzz writes "Do free Web hosting services turn a blind eye to phishing scams because doing so fattens up ad revenues? One security expert says it's obvious after he finds dozens of such phishing sites in only a few hours of searching publicly available records. He also says this is one problem that could stand an application of more lawyers.
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1135 5"
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/113