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Submission + - Chinese Virtual Currency & Official Currency

Submitted by BigFire on Monday April 09, 2007 @12:44PM

BigFire writes: This Wall Street Journal Article from April 2 describes the current widely accepted virtual currency in China, QQ Coin. It exist and flourish despites official attempt at crackdown on its trading and exchanges.

Submission + - The Reg: Windows Media Player smokes Weed

Submitted by

morlock_man

on Thursday April 05, 2007 @04:39PM

morlock_man writes: "From the Register: A music-sharing site popular with small and independent artists is suspending operations because of incompatibilities with Microsoft's latest version of Windows Media Player. Weedshare, home to 10,000 musicians and 100,000 tracks, will go offline next week after four years because Windows Media Player 11 does not play music files that have been updated to enable operators to charge consumers." Read the full article."

Submission + - Sci-Fi Writer John Ringo vs. Vista, Word, & DR

Submitted by Ruach on Thursday April 05, 2007 @03:42PM

Ruach writes: Sci-Fi writer John Ringo writes a detailed description (almost a short story) of the PAIN of having to upgrade to Vista when his XP laptop died — hint he made a mistake "a BUNCH of my songs are from MSN Music, which has been closed down." It is so long his web master put it into a PDF. http://www.johnringo.com/Abyss/OMFG.pdf
If this is the future of DRM computing — Linux will take over the desktop. A quote from near the end of the article, "If anyone can set me up on Linux, I might as well switch over. But I'm going to need major hand-holding. I've been an MS slave for a long time. But Vista has broken me." — John Ringo
(Warning explicit language in article).

Submission + - Merrill Lynch: 30% of U.S. Households to Own Wii b

Submitted by

njkid1

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:56AM

njkid1 writes: "According to a report in the Financial Times, the Wii's sales momentum is so strong that some analysts have upgraded their long-term outlooks for the console. Nintendo's new console just came off a very strong performance in January, easily selling more consoles than either the Xbox 360 or Sony's PS3. http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=1530 9&ncid=AOLGAM000500000000022"

Submission + - Heroic Slashdotter Mistakes Pron for Rape

Submitted by ObiWanStevobi on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:53AM

ObiWanStevobi writes: Ok, since this is considered an invasion case, I picked YRO. I also figured a sword qualifies as a handheld device.

A man who lives in his mother's basement, and has a sword collection, is being charged after breaking into his neighbor's house. He broke in after hearing what sounded like a woman being raped. He burst through the door weilding his sword with a +3 Dexterity adrenaline rush. The frightened wanker then proceeded to show him(James Van Iveren AKA Krunk the Slashdotter) that he was alone and just watching a porno. Van Iveren is now being charged on several counts such as trespassing and damage to property for breaking the door. LINK

PS Notice the URL, porn.sword.ap

Journal Journal: Apple and Cisco Make Nice on iPhone

Journal by gabosgab on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:51AM

Looks like the legal hounds were pulled back and Cisco and Apple agree to share rights on iPhone. More at the source

Submission + - Our customers demand Linux

Submitted by rolfc on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:41AM

rolfc writes: The OMXgroup, maker of systems for financial markets says in Computer Sweden that their next generation of software, Genium, will run on Linux since the customers demand it. The article in Swedish states that it is not the technical differences that is the reason but the fact that it is an open and competitive platform, and their customers has given clear signals that they want to run Linux.

Submission + - Dell charges for routine BIOS flags:

Submitted by silentsentinel on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:36AM

silentsentinel writes: Upon pricing a new laptop for our conference room this morning, imagine my suprise to discover that Dell is actually charging to flag routine BIOS settings before shipping machines... for $10 a pop! You just know some CIO somewhere is going to actually approve this.

Building the Interplanetary Internet 334

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:33AM from the ping-and-wait dept.

sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."

Journal Journal: Google Moves into Microsoft terriotry, at last.

Journal by 140Mandak262Jamuna on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:30AM

As expected Google announced that it is going to sell Office suite as a subscription service.

The link

Submission + - South African government to switch to Linux

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Looks like the South Africa government is planning to switch all government departments over to open source computer software instead of using Microsoft systems Seems to make sense and all for the country that spawned Ubuntu

Submission + - HDCP prevents PC from playing 1080p on TV

Submitted by

motherball

on Thursday February 22, 2007 @11:02AM

motherball writes: "Will hardware manufacturers and the movie industry stop at nothing to fight the consumer? An article in EDN mentions that newer TVs deliberately do not include the common HDMI connector but instead have the HDCP (high-bandwidth digital content-protection) connector which is intended to make it impossible to hook up your PC to your TV and render 1080p! Who stands to gain from this? Doesn't the consumer (I hate that word) have any rights?"

Google Apps Premier Edition Launches 261

Posted by kdawson on Thursday February 22, 2007 @10:54AM from the en-garde-Office dept.

prostoalex writes "Google Apps is adding a premium offering: a custom 10-GB Gmail box, Google Calendar, GTalk instant messenger, Writely, Google Pages, Google Custom home page iGoogle and Google SpreadSheets for $50 a year per employee. The NYTimes provides some details on competitive pricing: 'By comparison, businesses pay on average about $225 a person annually for Office and Exchange,... in addition to the costs of in-house management, customer support and hardware, according to the market research firm Gartner.' Boston.com quotes an analyst for Nucleus Research on Google's ease-of-use: '"What we see in the Google Apps is a real focus on making them easy to use and intuitive," she said. "And that's something that Microsoft has been unable to do in all of its years with Office."' But the same analyst is bearish on Google Apps' shortcomings relative to the mature Microsoft desktop products: 'Right now Google's going to give companies a better ability to negotiate with Microsoft.'"

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