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Comment Re:TPM is all you need. (Score 1) 100

What is the killer feature of Windows 8, the one everyone wants?

Smaller memory footprint, generally faster, many CPU optimisations to take into account newer silicon (e.g. being able to switch off unused cores predictably, assigning threads in a sane manner, etc), much better file copy and task manager interface, removing aero in favour of a cleaner UI style, etc.
There's no single big flashy feature added, but there are a lot of nice improvements to Win7. Any for anyone other than those who hunt around the start menu with a mouse rather than using the type-to-run function that's been there since Vista, it takes all of 10 minutes to get used to (or to install a start-menu replacement for the luddites).

Comment Re:The video doesn't sell it well (Score 1) 86

Waving my hands about with NO HAPTIC FEEDBACK is not in any way immersive for me. It doesn't matter how many tracking points you have, how fast the update rate is, or how wide a range of motions you can track. Whole-body non-haptic tracking will lose out to the most basic two-point haptic setup when it comes to actually experiencing an environment.

Comment Re:It's news worthy but isn't at the same time ... (Score 1) 180

My suspicion is the drones designers wrote in a fallback to allow use of C/A if it somehow lost P(Y). I'm sure somebody though this was a wonderful idea and failed to think through exactly why this was stupid. Or maybe it initially used C/A until they were given the key necessary for P(Y), but never got around to commenting out the fallback section of the code. The rest of the attack is obvious: use a high power (relative to a signal from a satellite) jammer, a higher power spoofing signal, and guide the drone to wherever you want it to be while telling it that it is flying back to base.

Comment Re:Potential for bypass (Score 1) 99

Using it as a development system potentially allows you to bypass much of the DRM to do your own thing

Taking bets now on whether 'registering with Microsoft' to turn your console into a devkit entails regular (or continuous) sign-ins when running unsigned code. Couldn't let people run what they wanted on consumer devices without some way to limit it, because piracy might somehow spontaneously occur!

Comment Re:AirPlay, iBooks, Game Center, and more DRM (Score 1) 244

May appeal to the geek, but Mom ain't ever going to figure this one out.

Other way around. It won't be much good for locally stored media (without the likely rapid proliferation of workarounds and possibly modified firmwares), but it is aimed squarely at The Youtubes and similar streaming services.

Comment Re:I agree (Score 4, Insightful) 312

Try flipping back to an earlier part of an eBook, and then returning to your original place.

If you can't do that, then the issue is with your software, not the format. Being able to flick back between two (or more) bookmarked positions instantly is one of the really useful features of ebooks. One example I use almost every day is in laptop disassembly manuals: to get to one part (say, the HSF assembly) there are certain other parts that need to be removed in order. The location for that specific part will have a section listing links to the parts that need to be removed to access that part. Clicking one of these links, stepping through that sub-process, then hitting the 'return to last position' shortcut is far faster than flicking through a printed manual.

Comment Minimal danger (Score 3, Insightful) 153

From TFA:

We're here on the West Australian coast, which is now the deadliest coast in the world

Yes, the deadliest coast in the world. 16 attacks (not all fatal) in... a decade. And how many millions swim off the coast every year? Even if you take Australia as a whole, on average the number of people killed by sharks per year is: one
If you want to avoid being attacked by a shark, I'd like to sell you this tiger^h^h^h^h^h shark repelling rock. It's much cheaper than a brand new wetsuit, and statistically equally as effective!

Comment Re:Easy (Score 1) 407

The problem was that my wife is a "power user" for the web, with dozens of web pages open, and Firefox was caching so much stuff that just the Firefox memory usage was well over 4 GB of RAM.

I have the opposite issue: My current firefox session has over 360 open tabs (a bad habit of using them in leiu of bookmarks), but uses less than 1gb of RAM, of which I have 16gb available.

Comment Re:The deal has changed, and for the better (Score 2) 221

I prefer the no-DRM system: I pay £1 for a song, and I can download it on anything that can handle http, and play it on anything that can handle a standard audio format. I can convert it to anything that can't. I can play it on as many devices as I want simultaneously. I can play it whenever and wherever I want. I can filter it, EQ it, upmix it, downmix it, or chop it into samples and annoy people with it on a keyboard as a soundfont. I can upload it, download it, back it up ad infinitum (online and offline), and it doesn't matter if the company that sold it to me goes bust. And if they're still in business, they can offer me a pittance of bandwidth for free and let me re-download in order to get me to return to their store and maybe buy another track.

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