Comment No electricity... (Score 3, Insightful) 104
When there is no electricity supply in the villages, this is an innovative way of giving 'power' to the people!
Comment God bless America (Score 1) 597
ho ho ho ho hohohhohohohohohoohohoho..........heh heh heh heh heh
Why are non-americans getting to see the weirdest possible stories emanating from the US of A?
Submission + - Microsoft Releases Batch of New Input Devices
jones_supa writes: To accompany Windows 8, Microsoft has released some interesting keyboard and mouse devices, all being wireless and using Bluetooth. The Wedge Touch Mouse is an artful product which is an angular wedge, being compact enough for travel too. Wedge Mobile Keyboard follows the style of laptop keyboards and includes a snap-on cover. Sculpt Touch Mouse is more like a classic mouse but features a four-way touch scroll strip. Finally we have Sculpt Mobile Keyboard which is a lighter version of a classic curved keyboard. All four are on the expensive side, but at first impression seem high-quality.
Comment For the people...By the people (Score 1) 530
Welcome to the promised land...
Now renamed "Democratic People's Republic of America"
Hail "Injustice" Department.
OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Won't Support Some 64-bit Macs With Older GPUs 417
MojoKid writes "Apple is pitching Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) as the cat's meow, with over 200 new features 'that add up to an amazing Mac experience' — but that only applies if you're rocking a compatible system. Some older Mac models, including ones that are 64-bit capable, aren't invited to the Mountain Lion party, and it's likely because of the GPU. It's being reported (unofficially) that an updated graphics architecture intended to smooth out performance in OS X's graphics subsystem is the underlying issue. It's no coincidence, then, that the unsupported GPUs happen to be ones that were fairly common back before 64-bit support became mainstream."
Comment Duh (Score 1) 331
Why not setup your server room in the 17ft u-haul?
Comment Non-geeks and non-americans grew up using win*.* (Score 1) 627
Most of the end-users in various corporations and most of the Asians working in the IT industry grew up using windows and its derivatives. For a vast majority of the people in Asian countries, Win*.* was and is free because piracy knocked down the cost of the computer.
Also, most of the end-users bought windows based machines when they were in School because the games were available on Windows and for most, at that stage in life, the computer was just an entertainment device to be used for gaming, music and movies.
With the increase in adoption of Linux in Schools and the qualitative jump that Linux has experienced in the past few years, you shall see increased adoption of non-Windows OSs.
Comment The unknown inventor (Score 1) 542
The guy who first used a wheel and an axle deserves to be called the pioneer amongst inventors. He applied science when scientific study did not exist at all. Same goes for the people who discovered the use of fruits, vegetables, spices and the method of preparation.
Three cheers for the stone age?!!
Comment Rule of Law (Score 1) 172
People living around the World think about the US as the place where there is the rule of law.
Don't see much difference between China/US/Russia/Nigeria...
Submission + - Aliens (bbc.co.uk)
neither_geek_nor_ner writes: Finally, some research into alien life which doesn't mirror Earth life
Comment Satisfaction (Score 1) 735
The bare fact that you are asking /. for advice shows that you want to complete the project roll-out and fulfill your responsibility. If the new company really wanted you then they would wait.
Comment Appearances matter more than result (Score 1) 113
Monitoring Twitter and Facebook is akin to putting police check-posts on the major highways but not on the back roads which are generally used by the not-so-innocent public for carrying on their activities. The regular users get inconvenienced but the bad guys get through!!
Comment Replicator (Score 1) 633
Reminds me of the statement of Capt. Picard when he told a newly awakened politician that the economics of the future are different.
I was in School at that time but it set me thinking!
I then understood that with a Replicator, you could eliminate want and all the problems associated with it!
Now when i am grown up, i realise that want is driving development also and, like all science projects, has its pros and cons.
Please, can i have a non-neutral karma now?
Novell Bringing .Net Developers To Apple iPad
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GMGruman writes "Paul Krill reports that Apple's new iPad could be easier to write apps for, thanks to Novell's MonoTouch development platform, which helps .Net developers create code for the iPad and fully comply with Apple's licensing requirements — without having to use Apple's preferred Objective-C. This news falls on the footsteps of news that Citrix will release an iPad app that lets users run Windows sessions on the iPad. These two developments bolster an argument that the iPad could eventually displace the netbook."
Microsoft Patches "Google Hack" Flaw In IE 142
An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security patch to address a remote code execution hole in Internet Explorer that was used in the recent Chinese attacks disclosed by Google. Ars Technica has all the download links you need."
