I place a very high value on the ability to access the Internet via the service provider of my choice but that does not mean I am willing to let the Robber Barons, aka Spectrum Barons, fleece me with promises of data rates they can only deliver on their best day to an extremely sparse user base located smack dab in the middle of the highest of population densities. This carrot is simply not enticing enough to bear the associated stick.

Aside from the Wii, the current generation of consoles does a decent job of delivering 1080p HD content. It no longer takes a $1500 PC to game at HD resolution with playable frame rates. The question in my mind is when will display manufacturers start pushing 2K resolution as the next big thing, and how long will it take for prices to be on par with current 1080p displays. At that point there will be a compelling reason for the gaming masses to get excited and open their wallets once again.

The OBJ format sample model on the Pix4D site doesn't play nice with nice with Alias. Having to tweak either the OBJ data or the viewer to get a firsthand view of the model tells me this service is not quite ready for prime time, and likely in need of significant funding to get to production quality.

Am I the only one who was hoping for a Left For Dead 2 map with Osama zombies?

How long will it take before someone mods DD-WRT to obfuscate Internet traffic to make device identification by ISPs difficult?

How else do you expect NASA to secure funding?

What about Outlook? Can this exploit be triggered by code embedded in an email?

The NT kernel is optimized to run SMP on cache coherent cores. ARM is not cache coherent and it is likely that making it cache coherent would ruin much of its power efficiency compared to x86. NT running on a single ARM core doesn't seem very interesting and supporting multithreaded applications on SMP ARM will require either strong thread affinity or adding some really ugly shared memory hacks to WIN32.

Having worked with several commercial USB protocol analyzers over the years I have yet to see one was anything more than an FPGA connected to an off the shelf USB PHY chip. As much as I like cute dog videos these guys need to post proper requirements and design specifications if they seriously want funding from me.

Pranksters would NEVER target such a mechanism to trigger a wave of false reports. Such shenanigans would never happen in this day and age.

...And you're going to find your power animal is a penguin named Tux.

...For including the Pokewalker with the DS Pokemon Heartgold game. My son gets to "unlock" playtime for his DS by using the pedometer feature on the Pokewalker (the pedometer is a Nintendo feature, gaming time limits are currently enforced the old fashion way).

CPGPU

Actually they are calling it an APU (accelerated processing unit), FWIW.

Everyone hates patch Tuesday. For the target demographic of tablet devices dealing with patch after patch for the OS and plug-ins would completely ruin the experience. While the typical geek has no problem with patches, we are sadly not the target demographic for tablet devices.

...should include a sample of some code that attempts to perform logical operations based on the outcome of floating point operations. Anyone who attempts to check the result of a floating point operation for equality without normalizing precision should be shown to the door and never called back.