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Comment: Re:Nightblade (Score 3, Informative) 164

by j.a.mcguire on Monday July 19, 2010 @05:11PM (#32957226) Attached to: Valve Releases Updated <em>Alien Swarm</em> For Free With Code Base

Yes Nightblade has been cancelled.

Comment: Works with popular batteries? (Score 1) 453

by j.a.mcguire on Friday July 02, 2010 @07:20AM (#32771518) Attached to: MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want

What's a CR123 battery and if it's so popular why have I never heard of it?

Comment: Re:Who? (Score 1) 701

by j.a.mcguire on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @08:45AM (#32743614) Attached to: Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday

Is knowing the who's who of programming essential to programming itself? Didn't think so.

Comment: Sounds like hogwash (Score 1) 181

by j.a.mcguire on Friday June 25, 2010 @06:59AM (#32688758) Attached to: Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages

Summary states the students think it could be the only reliable form of communication in rural areas..what, transmitting data via SMS which is a (relative to 20bytes per second) high speed data protocol anyway. Interlacing their text data between Voice and other SMS -- sure, this sounds like worthy research *sarcasm*.

Comment: Where's the google innovation? (Score 1) 196

by j.a.mcguire on Saturday May 15, 2010 @03:59PM (#32222006) Attached to: Google Stops Selling Its Own Phone

This totally confuses me with Google, they come up with a world class search engine technology and yet constantly fail to dominate other market sectors and in the end, resort to buying out their competitors. Surely with all the talented staff at Google they could have realised early on that consumers would want a hands on trial, and customisable service plan options -- why not just offer these instead of giving up altogether?