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Handhelds

Submission + - Driver issues plague HTC handhelds (htcclassaction.org)

An anonymous reader writes: The latest and greatest HTC SmartPhones and PocketPC's, including the TyTN II, are plagued with driver issues, namely missing or grossly underperforming video, touchscreen and camera drivers. After months of complaining to HTC and them hardly even acknowledging the issue, there is now even talk of a possible lawsuit to get HTC to fix the problems.

Affected devices include the "PDA of the year" HTC TyTN II (Kaiser, AT&T Tilt, T-Mobile MDA Vario III, Vodafone v1615), the "iPhone killers" HTC Touch / Touch Dual / Touch Cruise, the HTC Titan (Sprint Mogul, Verizon XV6800) and several other less known devices.

Intel

Quick and Dirty Penryn Benchmarks 90

An anonymous reader writes "So Intel has their quad-core Penryn processors all set and ready to launch in November. There are benchmarks for the dual-core Wolfdale all over the place, but this seems to be the first article to put the quad-core Yorkfield to the test. It looks like the Yorkfield is only about 7-8% faster than the Kentsfield with similar clock speeds and front-side bus."
The Internet

Submission + - Is There a Secret Sauce for a Hit Social Network? (socialcomputingmagazine.com)

An anonymous reader writes: People hungry for social interaction on the web currently have a near boundless choice for their communal appetites, but this article in Social Computing Magazine notes that is increasingly difficult to launch a new one and achieve any real traction with it. The article chooses Virb as an example of one that's waned after a momentary spike, while Facebook continues its meteoric rise, causing recent speculation that it may even replace email. What makes FB a potential killer app and Virb an also-ran – what's the present consensus on the secret sauce for a globally successful social network?

Feed Science Daily: Threats To Hope: Desperation Affects Reasoning About Product Information (sciencedaily.com)

When our hopes are threatened, we often turn to the marketplace for help. Can't fit into the gorgeous outfit you bought for your high school reunion? Trying to get pregnant? Want a bigger house but afraid you can't afford it? A new study argues that in situations like these, consumers are susceptible to "motivated reasoning." We believe what we want to believe about products that promise to help --- even if the arguments don't come from credible sources.
Businesses

Submission + - Message in a Bottle

theodp writes: "At the Peninsula hotel in Beverly Hills, where rooms start at $500, the minibar in all 196 rooms contains six bottles of Fiji Water. Back in Fiji, where a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market, more than half the people do not have safe, reliable drinking water. Fast Company takes a look at the economics and psychology of America's $15 billion-a-year bottled water business, and what it says about our culture of indulgence. Perhaps you'd enjoy a $55 bottle of Bling H2O while you read it."

Another New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings? 131

Praxiteles writes "A radar survey in 2000 found KV63, the tomb excavated near King Tutankhamen's tomb earlier this year. (KV stands for Valley of the Kings). Just announced is that this same radar survey shows an image of what appears to be a shaft to another tomb just 15 meters north of KV63. Will radar stratigraphy change the multi-millennial tradition of destructive excavation and open new opportunities in the search for buried treasure?"

Comment It depends why you want the degree (Score 1) 467

If you already have a well rounded resume in terms of relevant work experience and are just looking for a "piece of paper" to compliment it, then an online degree could well be just as valuable as a traditional degree. If you are using a degree as a starting block for your career then I think that an online degree would not hold the same value. If there's plenty of other meat in your resume for a potential employer to look at the source of your degree becomes less of an issue.

Comment Re:No, it isn't. (Score 1) 344

FLEB,

A pallete is a very specific thing.
A toolwindow is a generic thing.

Having a histogram up on a display that is not color correct to your existing display is not going to matter that much. Having a color picker or a pallete there can range from mildly annoying to the kind of anger that rivals Mike Tyson in the boxing ring.

This is why we have different words, so you can say what you mean, instead of using a word incorrectly and then making up another word to cover up the fact that you didn't say what you meant.

For web layout, or images with absolutely no anti-aliasing at all, it is permissable to work "by the numbers" using Pantone colors.

For everything else... unless you want to end up biting off the tip of someone's ear, I'd suggest you aquire monitors that represent colors correctly.
Internet Explorer

Journal Journal: Port; Be Proud.

I really need to get working on my website. Of course, practically anyone who has ever visited my website knows this. It has been for the past 3 years, the most stunningly unfinished project known to man.

Comment Re:Am I missing something here? (Score 1) 31

I noticed the same problem. I went back to the page an hour or two later to try it again, and when I clicked "generate", the list of genres dropped down and a 3-line text box appeared with a url in it. I don't think I changed any settings between the 2 attempts. But it seems to work for me now. Good luck.
PHP

Journal Journal: Phemplate ... where are you?

PHP is nice. It's not so nice that I would throw away all the other languages I know, but it's nice enough that I have transferred over my previously perl/cgi website to it. I'd like it a lot better if I could force variable declaration, but on the whole it's pretty good.

Comment Re:PVR pricing needs work (Score 1) 319

And not to be too argumentative: Yes, yes it can. It may be just my own ignorance, but I know of many VCR owners (myself among them), none of which ever shared their own recordings. For many people (and in my experience, most people), the VCR is really just a VCP, and in this mode, the Tivo most certainly does replace the VCR.

At this point, I suppose, we can agree to disagree.
Slashback

Journal Journal: Wherein We Court Employment, Dog Houses, Apartment Living

Who was it who said "There are jobs out there"? Who was it who said that "The best people are still employed"? Who is it that hasn't called me in two months, hasn't found me a job interview in three months, and when I call them says "The job market is starting to look up. We're seeing a lot more jobs posted, just none with your skill-set"? I'll tell you who. The Recruiting Company. Let me correct them for you. There are NO

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