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Apple

Submission + - Australian court blocks sales of Samsung Galaxy Ta (itnews.com.au) 2

Submitted by jimboh2k
jimboh2k writes: Apple has succeeded in blocking the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet in Australia until a final hearing can be heard in the case down under. The judgment on Thursday could effectively kill chances of the tablet ever launching properly in Australia after Samsung claimed further delays to the product would threaten hopes of gaining traction.

Comment Re:Duh? (Score 1) 413

by hag3r (#37424810) Attached to: Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps

I'm all for MS-flaming but how could anyone possibly be disappointed or shocked by this? It's like expecting 68k Macs to run PPC binaries.

Since they are transitioning from Intel to ARM, this is more like running 68k binaries on PPC Macs, or PPC binaries on Intel Macs. Both of which were, of course, possible.

Except it's the other way around.
Pretty much any current Intel processor (not sure about Atom) out there runs circles around the ARM chips of today.
Although it's still possible to run x86 binaries in emulated environment on ARM, I wouldn't expect it to be a pleasant experience.
Linux

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

Comment Re:Brilliant. Go Steve! (Score 1) 609

by hag3r (#32221134) Attached to: Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission
It's quite different from the HSD in that it has three inputs, contrary to what GP said - one power input, and two control inputs, both of which ought to require just a fraction of the input power to control the input/output gear ratio. Watch the video in TFA instead of instantly dismissing it as "has been done before".
Nintendo

Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game 287

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the loss was caused when James Burt made New Super Mario Bros Wii available for illegal download a week ahead of its official Australian release in November of last year. Nintendo applied for and was granted a search order by the Federal Court, forcing Burt to disclose the whereabouts of all his computers, disks and electronic storage devices in November. He was also ordered to allow access, including passwords, to his social networking sites, email accounts and websites."

Comment Re:Fahrenheit: It's for telling temperature (Score 1) 1233

by hag3r (#29585697) Attached to: At What Temperature (F) Do You Prefer Your Nerd Cave?

Genuinely curious to know: are AC units and other heating/cooling devices rated at kCal in places where the metric system is dominant?

Not being in the heating/cooling business, I really have no idea what units the professionals use, but in the few product sheets I looked up on consumer devices, the cooling power output is always given in kW, while some also specify BTU/h.

Although much more useful info for either system would be how much energy is required to cool/heat a given volume of air 1 degree. Probably doesn't line up as neatly.

You're probably right.

Comment Re:Fahrenheit: It's for telling temperature (Score 1) 1233

by hag3r (#29559243) Attached to: At What Temperature (F) Do You Prefer Your Nerd Cave?

Though I prefer metric (since I'm stuck with US measures at work, so I know how confused they can be) the advantage of Fahrenheit is that raising 1 pound mass of water 1 degree F takes 1 BTU (though at what temperature this is strictly true, I forget). This is a useful convention in the heating and air conditioning business. I don't think that there is a similar easy conversion in the metric system.

Raising 1kg of water 1 degree Celsius takes 1 kcal. That holds true except for when it passes from solid to liquid, or liquid to gas.
Security

Submission + - Online game unleashes unholy rage on abusers (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Earthquake Retrofit
Earthquake Retrofit writes: Ars has a story about Eve Online dropping 9000 accounts for real-world trading of in-game money for profit. From the article:

"Those who buy and sell ISK, the game's currency, are not only exploiting the game, but unbalancing play. That's why the company decided to go drastic: a program they called "Unholy Rage,"

For weeks they studied the behavior and effects these real-money traders had on the game, and then they struck. During scheduled maintenance, over 6,000 accounts were banned. Hreiðarsson assures us that the methods were sound, and the bannings went off with surgical precision.

While the number of accounts banned in the opening phase of the operation constituted around 2 percent of the total active registered accounts, the CPU per user usage was cut by a good 30 percent."

Looks like they got the right 6000.

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