Comment: Re:Are they going to purchase old K-Mart buildings (Score 1) 136
They allow centers for guitars, why not allow them for data?
Comment: Re:Yawn (Score 3, Funny) 656
Sure, in the future it may lead to cheaper weapons for criminals, but conversely, it will also lead to cheaper weapons for the oppressed.
Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system!
Comment: Re: 312 km coast to coast (Score 5, Funny) 355
He is an American.
Comment: Re:Browser Not Supported (Score 1) 77
And they did that without DRM!
Comment: Re:Get over it. (Score 5, Funny) 332
Uh-oh. It looks like he also reads slashdot!
Comment: Re:ASIC will make it pointless (Score 1) 232
It is only pointless if you are the one investing in and running CPUs and GPUs to do the mining. He isn't. Instead he is costing the users more than he is going to receive, but that is still more than nothing.
Comment: First time since the 80s, not the first time ever. (Score 1) 391
How was Windows outselling Apple before Windows existed?
Comment: Re:Slashdot - News by Morons (Score 4, Insightful) 75
Or the editors could, uh, edit.
Comment: Re:Developers (Score 1) 106
There are a lot of indies developing for the 3DS. Bob was an idiot for thinking that working on hacked systems for a few years would somehow get past Nintendo. They have even started to loosen some of the restrictions, such as office security.
Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster 427
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from the onward-to-ruin-the-next-company dept.
from the onward-to-ruin-the-next-company dept.
mozumder writes "The disastrous launch of SimCity took its first major toll, with EA CEO John Riccitiello being fired from his position and removed from the Board of Directors. It is unknown what effect this may have on the SimCity franchise or any future DRM of EA games, but clearly someone didn't think their cunning plan all the way through when they decided to implement always-on connections for single-player gaming."
Comment: Re:Burn in is NOT Ghosting (Score 4, Informative) 195
Ghosting is often used to described the blur caused by pixels slowly transitioning from one state to the next. What is happening here is more along the lines of "image retention" than ghosting. A static charge can "preserve" the state of the pixels in some of the cheaper IPS panels. It isn't permanent like burn in but it is annoying and a much slower transition than the typical ghosting. It is funny that it has taken this long for the issue to gain attention. I'd seen the very same issues with their cinema displays a few years ago. Never understood how artists could swear by Apple if the colors don't transition correctly.
Texas Rangers Use Internet To Breathe New Life Into Cold Case Homicides 73
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samzenpus
from the new-life dept.
from the new-life dept.
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases. DPS spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger says continual strides in technology make focusing on cold cases more important than ever because there are more opportunities to solve them with each emerging process or device. The web site was created because the more readily available information is the more people may be apt to pick up the phone and report what they know. 'It helps to refresh these cases in the public's mind and hopefully we'll shed new light on it. In some cases, we can also re-examine evidence if there's an opportunity or need there as well,' says Cesinger. One featured case from 1993 is Kathleen Suckley who was 29 when her throat was slashed and she was stabbed about 40 times inside her rented duplex, while her two sons, ages 4 and 1, were home. Officials said they interviewed numerous witnesses but never got enough information for an arrest. Capt. Tim Wilson maintains that in any homicide case there always is someone who knows something. At some point, he believes, the murderer will tell someone out of guilt or pride, or simply the pressure of holding it in. Cesinger points out that over time as relationships change, if prompted by something like the website or a news article, that confidant finally may come forward. 'I think we owe it to Kathleen to be this tenacious. It drives me nuts that somebody can do this and get away with it,' says Kathleen's mother-in-law Luann Suckley. 'I think the website is great ... maybe someone will finally speak up because I'm tired of sitting back and waiting.'"
Comment: Re:Might be better for profits (Score 4, Interesting) 76
Typically the supplies dry up pretty quick during a launch. By selling in the spring, they can go through that initial shortage while they ramp up production and then not miss out on sales during the holiday season.
Comment: Re:Upgrade to 6.1? (Score 1) 266
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Attached to: iOS 6.1 Leads To Battery Life Drain, Overheating For iPhone Users
LTE really sucked on my Galaxy Nexus when the phone was first released. It would drop the signal entirely every 5-20 minutes even though I live in an area with really good coverage. Verizon said they knew about the problem but it took them months to release a fix. Luckily, the update was leaked online very early on so I was able to get the phone in a working state.
Comment: This isn't about social networking (Score 5, Interesting) 135
It is about which networks you use. The employees were encouraged to promote Google+, not just use any old social network. I imagine that Vic's tweet was only bad because it sent views to another site. If you are the head of any project, you really shouldn't be using the competition publicly.