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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Hits New All-time High of $32 339

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the causes-peak-oil dept.
Sabbetus writes "Bitcoin tops its previous all-time high of $31.91 and in doing so it proves to be quite a resilient virtual currency. To the supporters of Bitcoin this does not come as a surprise, since we have seen the likes of WordPress, Reddit and Mega embrace it. Recently Namecheap also confirmed that they will start accepting bitcoins. The new record price was reached on the same day that Mt. Gox, the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, reached an agreement with CoinLab to manage the exchange's operations in the U.S. and Canada." A far cry from the end of 2011.
Operating Systems

The State of BSD At the Start of 2013 91

Posted by Soulskill
from the still-alive-still-alive dept.
An anonymous reader writes "NetBSD developer Julian Djamil Fagir provides a nice briefing on what the big three BSD projects have been working on, and explains/reminds us of their cultural differences. Stick a fork in them? Yes, Djamil Fagir mentions a couple of those, too. The recent releases from FreeBSD and NetBSD were covered by Slashdot."

Comment: The Surface RT did as well... but that mean much (Score 4, Interesting) 413

by supremebob (#42853989) Attached to: Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked?

Microsoft also "sold out" of the Surface RT on launch day as well... and that thing has sold poorly after it's initial launch. They were originally expecting to sell 2 million units in Q4 2012, and they only sold about half of that.

It seems that this tactic has become a common way for Microsoft to generate some additional post launch hype for their products. I wonder how many times they can get away with it before the mainstream press catches on...

Comment: Re:Seems perfectly reasonable (Score 1) 1591

by supremebob (#42603375) Attached to: New York Passes Landmark Gun Law

The problem is that parts of new law aren't reasonable, especially the new 7 round magazine limit.

The standard magazine capacities right now are 8, 10, 12, 15, and 30. Nobody makes 7 round magazines for most guns.

So, basically, New York has just succeeded in making most existing semi automatic weapons with a magazine illegal to sell.

Comment: When will we be seeing these on Woot for $200? (Score 1) 215

by supremebob (#42040415) Attached to: Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love?

At this rate, it's only a matter of time until Microsoft does a liquidation sale on this product to get rid of excess inventory.

Has anyone been able to hack this tablet and get Android on it yet? If so, I might pick one up when a liquidator like Woot starts selling excess Microsoft Surface inventory as "refurbished" for around $189,

Data Storage

Reiser4 File System Still In Development 317

Posted by timothy
from the despite-it-all dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Reiser4 still hasn't been merged into the mainline Linux kernel, but it's still being worked on by a small group of developers following Hans Reiser being convicted for murdering his wife. Reiser4 was updated in September on SourceForge to work with the Linux 3.5 kernel and has been benchmarked against EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and ReiserFS. Reiser4 loses out in most of the Linux file-system performance tests, has much stigma due to Hans Reiser, and Btrfs is surpassing it feature-wise, so does it have any future in Linux ahead?"

Comment: Re:How many more? (Score 2) 409

by supremebob (#41648543) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed

Keep in mind that Windows Mobile 6.x users also recently screwed over a few years ago by having their application marketplace shut down, even though many of them still had a year left in their two year phone contracts.

Buying a Windows Phone 7 phone right now would be downright foolish, because they aren't going to get a Windows 8 upgrade and the same problems with dwindling application support is likely to happen to them as well. Looking at past support of their legacy phones, it would make me think twice before buying a Windows 8 phone as well.

Comment: Re:yup... (Score 1) 113

by supremebob (#41385311) Attached to: BioWare Founders Announce Retirement

I think that these two will be back a year from now, posting their new indie game idea on Kickstarter. They just don't want to work for EA anymore, and who can blame them?

Odds are that it will be their best idea in years, considering that they'll no longer have to through EA's focus groups and finance guys to get the project green lit.

Comment: Re:newsflash (Score 2) 185

by supremebob (#41357801) Attached to: BitInstant CEO Says World Operates "On an Inferior Monetary System"

What's even more amusing that the #1 currency exchange for his product is still MtGox, which was formerly famous for trading Magic The Gathering playing cards.

Oh, and not only was that site hacked, but that hack was responsible for wiping out 2/3'rds of the currency's reported value overnight. Even now, it still hasn't fully recovered that value.

Wow, this sounds MUCH better than the existing monetary system! Sign me up!

Comment: Still no Siri for the iPad 2... WTF?? (Score 1) 244

by supremebob (#41330263) Attached to: Fragmentation Comes To iOS

Come on Apple... The iPad 2 and iPhone 4S have basically the same CPU, storage, and memory specifications. Both have a microphone and speakers. Siri should run fine on both platforms.

That said, why is Siri available for the last generation iPhone but not the last generation iPad?? It makes no damn sense.

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