Comment Re:It's funny - laugh (Score 1) 269
you can say that because Ada Lovelace did got her geek
Comment x86 vs ARM? (Score 1) 269
Pfft.
she'd have to at least talk about a worthy RISC architecture, Power PC or SPARC, too bad those ones don't have a chance
AMD Offers Women Geek Dating Advice 269
Blacklaw writes "It appears AMD has decided to branch out from integrated circuits and enter the romance market with a handy guide for girls to land themselves a geeky guy. From the article: 'In a blog post written by Leslie Sobon, the company's vice president of marketing, Sobon describes her life in the largely male-dominated world of technology as being "mostly surrounded by guys all day," but says: "I can tell you that — in general — technical guys are pretty cool," and offers advice on how girls can land a geek guy. Although clearly meant in a lighthearted way, Sobon's missive serves to patronize both her company's customers — who, we learn, are socially inept and bad dressers — and women, who apparently can't understand technology and need to find a nice man who can "fix the TV, your PC, and the sprinkler system" along with other magical item s far too complex for the poor female brain to comprehend.'"
Comment Re:What about the rest of the family? (Score 1) 311
you mean like OGG, or maybe FLAC, what about AIFF?, I'd say it's about the same on format-compatibility, also have you checked the battery life on the new iPods, it's staggering. A tip for you, try not to reencode your media, you'll lose quality and gain almost nothing in return.
The Zune is neither freer nor substancially better than the iPod, and that's why it got lost on the sea of "MP3 Players" instead of being "the new iPod"
Australia's National Broadband Network To Go Ahead 222
angry tapir writes "After weeks of a hung parliament following the Australian federal election, the incumbent Labor Party has garnered enough support among independent MPs to form a minority government. Broadband was central to clinching the independents' support. Labor's victory means the $43 billion National Broadband Network will push ahead. The policy has generally been popular among ISPs and telcos — though some rebel operators preferred a policy that emphasized wireless technologies, similar to the proposals put forward by Labor's opponents. The primarily fiber-based NBN is set to offer Australians 1Gbps broadband."
Comment Re:Winamp. (Score 1) 390
then you might like Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/http://www.clementine-player.org/
Network Neutrality Is Law In Chile 180
An anonymous reader writes "Chile is the first country of the world to guarantee by law the principle of network neutrality, according to the Teleccomunications Market Comission's Blog from Spain. The official newspaper of the Chilean Republic published yesterday a Law that guarantees that any Internet user will be able to use, send, receive or offer any content, applications or legal services over the Internet, without arbitrary or discriminatory blocking."
Windows 95 Turns 15 461
An anonymous reader writes "15 years ago on this day, Microsoft's then new Windows 95 was released. Among other things it moved users away from the archaic file manager and program manager to Windows explorer and the start menu. Compared to today's 'social desktop,' I'd much rather have the simpler and more sparse (pre-Internet Explorer integrated) Windows Explorer, though I do not like the (lack of) stability that Windows 95 offers. Of course if you were alive then, you've probably seen the commercials." I fondly recall downloading build after build and installing them. But within months of the official release, I switched to Linux.
Microsoft Claims 'We Love Open Source' 464
jbrodkin writes "Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's famous comment in 2001 that Linux is a 'cancer' that threatened Microsoft's intellectual property. While Microsoft hasn't formally rescinded its declaration that Linux violates its patents, at least one Microsoft executive admits that the company's earlier battle stance was a mistake. Microsoft wants the world to understand, whatever its issues with Linux, it no longer has any gripe toward open source."
Look For AI, Not Aliens 452
krou writes "Writing in Acta Astronautica, Seti astronomer Seth Shostak argues that we should be looking for 'sentient machines' rather than biological life. In an interview with the BBC, he said, 'If you look at the timescales for the development of technology, at some point you invent radio and then you go on the air and then we have a chance of finding you. But within a few hundred years of inventing radio — at least if we're any example — you invent thinking machines; we're probably going to do that in this century. So you've invented your successors and only for a few hundred years are you... a "biological" intelligence.' As a result, he says 'we could spend at least a few percent of our time... looking in the directions that are maybe not the most attractive in terms of biological intelligence but maybe where sentient machines are hanging out.'"
Comment Re:Supporting citizens vs supporting a platform (Score 1) 393
Yes It's called JavaME, and almost all smartphones, (Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, MeeGo, and more) are capable of running, except the iPhone.
Comment Re:undocumented commands I've seen: (Score 1) 288
WOW, that was awesome, i tried it on my terminal, and BLAM! :D
Comment Re:What a great idea! (Score 1) 95
That is like saying that because so many politicians have made speeches, 'I have a Dream' and 'The Gettysburg Address' are ruined by that.
All Persons have Free Speech, their quality has nothing to do with the crap others say. This is simply an extension of it.
Comment Re:Why the obsession with javascript? (Score 1) 143
Yeah, it's quite common to only check the JS numbers, so many benchmarks to choose from.
I remember an old webpage that tested both JS, HTML and CSS performance; Opera kicked ass in all except JS (this were pre-Chrome, Firefox 3.5 times)... So Opera has classically had quite good performance on HTML rendering on really large webpages, or crooked HTML, nested tables or stuff like that.
Recreating the Matrix In Legos 21
LoneHighway writes "Salon.com has a write up of what is being called an epic feat of Nerdity, the "Trinity, Help!" scene from The Matrix has been recreated using only Legos. It took 440 hours for Trevor Boyd and Steve Ilett to create Lego Matrix Trinity Help, which is a perfect shot-by-shot remake of a short but memorable scene from the Wachowski Brothers’ masterpiece, executed via stop-motion animation and a nearly infinite amount of Legos. They even provide a split screen comparison to the original. Very cool!"
